Heads on fire
Subtitle: essays on Southern fiction
By: Jan Nordby Gretlund
Series: University of Southern Denmark Studies in Literature -- vol. 64; University of Southern Denmark studies in literature -- vol. 64.
Publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Odense
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9788776748050
Subjects: American fiction; History and criticism; Intellectual life; 18.06 Anglo-American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fraught with fiction; title: Southern fiction, The first Annus Mirabilis: 1835; title: Southern writer, critic, and editor, Edgar Allan Poe; title: The anti-imperialist, Mark Twain; title: And Mark Twain became a Southern writer; title: Biography or novel? Eudora Welty's bestseller; title: Country innocence, Madison Jones; title: The past in the present, Pam Durban; title: Grandmas and mummies, Clyde Edgerton; title: Encapsulated prejudice, Today's southern fiction; title: 'Man delights not me', Cormac McCarthy; title: The end, Cormac McCarthy.