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 302
... novelists at home or abroad . Since the appearance of Giants in the Earth , I am disposed to add all the novels ever written by American novelists in any language ; for Mr. Rölvaag has written a great and beautiful American novel in the ...
... novelists at home or abroad . Since the appearance of Giants in the Earth , I am disposed to add all the novels ever written by American novelists in any language ; for Mr. Rölvaag has written a great and beautiful American novel in the ...
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... novelists of their opportunity and obligation to portray " the soci- ety of which they are a part in just proportions and with proper articulation . " Readers do trust their novelists and assume that the block of local portraiture ...
... novelists of their opportunity and obligation to portray " the soci- ety of which they are a part in just proportions and with proper articulation . " Readers do trust their novelists and assume that the block of local portraiture ...
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... novelists is the middle class the center panel of the picture . The South can have no quarrel with the publishers , for its list of novels is long ; nor with the reading public , for its books have been read widely . The only possible ...
... novelists is the middle class the center panel of the picture . The South can have no quarrel with the publishers , for its list of novels is long ; nor with the reading public , for its books have been read widely . The only possible ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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