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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... important writer , one comparable with Cooper and one playing a special role in Southern letters . The Knicker- bocker Magazine , an important New York journal in the 1830s and 1840s especially while under Lewis Gaylord Clark's ...
... important writer , one comparable with Cooper and one playing a special role in Southern letters . The Knicker- bocker Magazine , an important New York journal in the 1830s and 1840s especially while under Lewis Gaylord Clark's ...
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... important elements that have helped to make it so vital and so rich in fruit : the first is the wholesome and genuine interest which the Southern people themselves have been taking in their own life and history ; and secondly , the ...
... important elements that have helped to make it so vital and so rich in fruit : the first is the wholesome and genuine interest which the Southern people themselves have been taking in their own life and history ; and secondly , the ...
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... important . In sum it does not appear that the slavery system throttled intellectual life in the South : on the contrary , if , as the late Professor Parrington be- lieved , our political literature is our national glory , the South ...
... important . In sum it does not appear that the slavery system throttled intellectual life in the South : on the contrary , if , as the late Professor Parrington be- lieved , our political literature is our national glory , the South ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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