Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952John Earl Bassett Defining Southern Literature delineates several phases in the story of Southern literature. Debate over what makes Southern literature different - or even Southern - goes back many decades, and among the answers has been the debate itself, a uniquely pervasive regional self-consciousness over what makes Southern culture different. Certainly no other American region has been so distinctly "marked" as the South has. Attempts to delineate the special mission, nature, problems, and virtues of Southern writers can be traced back at least to the 1830s, when editors called - with only slight success - for a sectional literature and more supportive Southern readers. |
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... Simms's The Sword and the Distaff ( 1852 ) , later known as Woodcraft . Actually , that is one of Simms's more engaging novels , but one that received less attention than earlier works in large part because of Simms's bad relations with ...
... Simms's The Sword and the Distaff ( 1852 ) , later known as Woodcraft . Actually , that is one of Simms's more engaging novels , but one that received less attention than earlier works in large part because of Simms's bad relations with ...
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... Simms's next two novels . A reviewer for the New England Magazine had reservations about Guy Rivers ; but in the same journal Park Benjamin praised The Yemassee as an " excellent story " and Simms as " first of American novelists . " 24 ...
... Simms's next two novels . A reviewer for the New England Magazine had reservations about Guy Rivers ; but in the same journal Park Benjamin praised The Yemassee as an " excellent story " and Simms as " first of American novelists . " 24 ...
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... Simms had written.32 In a scathing attack on Count Julian , The Knickerbocker denied Simms was even close to the level of Cooper and Irving , who unlike Simms had added important characters to the human imagination . Simms's " mistiness ...
... Simms had written.32 In a scathing attack on Count Julian , The Knickerbocker denied Simms was even close to the level of Cooper and Irving , who unlike Simms had added important characters to the human imagination . Simms's " mistiness ...
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