Library of Southern literature
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Literary collections; American literature; Fiction; History; Social conditions; Social life and customs; Biography; Description and travel; Poetry; Intellectual life; Slavery; Songs and music; Spirituals (Songs); African Americans; Music; Slaves; Slaves' writings, American; American Dialect literature; Electronic books
Other titles: Digitized library of Southern literature; Documenting the American South :; Digitized library of Southern literature, beginnings to 1920; Documenting the American South.
Description: Documents the riches and diversity of Southern experience as presented in one hundred of its most important literary works.  The bibliography was compiled by the late Professor Robert Bain, based on suggestions from colleagues in Southern studies around the country and is available on the site through the "About the project" page.  The collection includes fictional works, slave narratives, poems, music, etc.
Notes: Title from project home page (viewed August 30, 2001).

Part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database Documenting the American South.  A sidebar provides access to the main collections access page, about the collection, searching, subject, author, and title indexes.

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Full texts in both HTML and SGML formats.

Mode of access: Internet World Wide Web.

System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Table of contents: title: Collection of electronic texts; title: Introduction to literature in the American South: (Introduction; title: Antebellum Era; title: Biography; title: Black literature; title: Civil War; title: Folklore; title: Humor; title: Local Color Era; title: Regionalism); title: About the project.