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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Page 139
... idea of popular liberty was , or soon became , in certain aspects , more constrained than the northern . It could not but be so . We know how soon in the north the question of slaveholding in its moral aspect began to agitate the public ...
... idea of popular liberty was , or soon became , in certain aspects , more constrained than the northern . It could not but be so . We know how soon in the north the question of slaveholding in its moral aspect began to agitate the public ...
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... ideas to prune to truer proportions before we can read and write abreast of the pioneers of thought . I shall mention one or two . The plantation idea is a semi - barbarism . It is the idea of the old South with merely the substitution ...
... ideas to prune to truer proportions before we can read and write abreast of the pioneers of thought . I shall mention one or two . The plantation idea is a semi - barbarism . It is the idea of the old South with merely the substitution ...
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... ideas . There is , perhaps , not another part of the world in which the political idea so completely dominates all thinking as in the South . The political machinery has had a complete and effective organization with which it might ...
... ideas . There is , perhaps , not another part of the world in which the political idea so completely dominates all thinking as in the South . The political machinery has had a complete and effective organization with which it might ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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