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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... least among those who offered up their lives and reputation in support of the most despicable piece of treason in recorded history . Mr. Wise knows this ; at least he should . The best friends that the memory of Jeff Davis can command ...
... least among those who offered up their lives and reputation in support of the most despicable piece of treason in recorded history . Mr. Wise knows this ; at least he should . The best friends that the memory of Jeff Davis can command ...
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... least a germ of the truth . From the beginning of its history the South had suffered less from a scarcity of literature than from a superabundance of living . Soil , scenery , all the color and animation of the external world , tempted ...
... least a germ of the truth . From the beginning of its history the South had suffered less from a scarcity of literature than from a superabundance of living . Soil , scenery , all the color and animation of the external world , tempted ...
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... least a dealer in lavender and old lace , but a political and sociological novelist of the type of which the extreme example is a writer like Upton Sinclair . " And Cable himself , writing of his novel " The Grandissimes , " said : " It ...
... least a dealer in lavender and old lace , but a political and sociological novelist of the type of which the extreme example is a writer like Upton Sinclair . " And Cable himself , writing of his novel " The Grandissimes , " said : " It ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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