The roots of Southern writing
Subtitle: essays on the literature of the American South
By: [by] C. Hugh Holman.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Southern States -- Intellectual life; Southern States -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Southerner as American writer.; title: Simms and the wider world: Views and reviews.; title: William Gilmore Simms's picture of the Revolution as a civil war.; title: The influence of Scott and Cooper on Simms.; title: Simms and the British dramatists.; title: William Gilmore Simms and the American Renaissance.; title: The novel in the South.; title: The view from the Regency Hyatt.; title: Ellen Glasgow: the novelist of manners as social critic.; title: The dark, ruined Helen of his blood: Thomas Wolfe and the South.; title: The loneliness at the core.; title: Europe as catalyst for Thomas Wolfe.; title: The unity of Faulkner's Light in August.; title: Absalom, Absalom! The historian as detective.; title: Her rue with a difference.; title: Literature and culture: the fugitive-agrarians.; title: Three views of the real.