The fourth ghost
Subtitle: white Southern writers and European fascism, 1930-1950
By: Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780807133835
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism; Fascism and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Authors, American -- Southern States -- Political and social views; Fascism in literature; Racism in literature; Southern States -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the fourth ghost; title: Dangerous liaisons: the Nashville Agrarians; title: Savagery on the frontier: W. J. Cash; title: Pastoralism and extinction: William Alexander Percy; title: Georgia on my mind: Lillian Smith; title: You can't go to Germany, again: Thomas Wolfe; title: Democracy's tall men: William Faulkner; title: Something deathly in the air: Katherine Anne Porter; title: Dispatches from the home front: Carson McCullers; title: Pragmatism, idealism, responsibility: Robert Penn Warren; title: Ravagers of the earth: Lillian Hellman.