Revising Flannery O'Connor
Subtitle: southern literary culture and the problem of female authorship
By: Katherine Hemple Prown.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation.; Gordon, Caroline, 1895- -- Influence.; Fugitives (Group); Women and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.; Authorship -- Sex differences.; Agrarians (Group of writers); Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-; Southern States -- In literature.
Description: "In her short life, the prolific Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) authored two novels, thirty-two stories, and numerous essays and articles. Although her importance as a twentieth-century southern writer is unquestionable, mainstream feminist criticism has generally neglected O'Connor's work.".

"In Revising Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Hemple Prown addresses the conflicts O'Connor experienced as a "southern lady" and professional author. Placing gender at the center of her analytical framework, Prown considers the reasons for feminist critical negelct of the writer and traces the cultural origins of the complicated aesthetic that informs O'Connor's fiction, but published and unpublished.".

"O'Connor's relationship with her mentor Caroline Gordon, and its eventual disintegration, played a significant role in her development. As Prown shows, their relationship underlies the shift from the relatively "feminine" authorial voice of O'Connor's earliest drafts toward the decidedly masculinized tone of her published works.

Incorporating an insightful examination of the author in relation to the Fugitive/Agrarian and New Critical movements, Prown provides an original exploration of O'Connor's changing gender perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-183) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations  xi Introduction. i The Dixie Limited; title: O'Connor and Fugitive/Agrarian Discourse on Gender, Race,; title: and the Southern Literary Tradition - 25 To Cultivate the Masculine Virtues:; title: Caroline Gordon as Writer, Critic, and Mentor 77 Flannery O'Connor and the Problem of Female Auhorship:; title: The Manuscripts as Evidence in Conclusion .159 Notes I-63 Works Cited 173 " Index. I85.