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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... original institutions , can ever maintain a freedom , that shall have no need of perpetual struggles to support it . No one , we imagine , will he found hardy enough to contend that the sentiments of love of liberty and love of country ...
... original institutions , can ever maintain a freedom , that shall have no need of perpetual struggles to support it . No one , we imagine , will he found hardy enough to contend that the sentiments of love of liberty and love of country ...
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... original Sketches , and , to save trouble , are preserved in the present volume . With the exception , however , of one scene , " The Company Drill , " all the book is the production of the same pen . The first article in the list is ...
... original Sketches , and , to save trouble , are preserved in the present volume . With the exception , however , of one scene , " The Company Drill , " all the book is the production of the same pen . The first article in the list is ...
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... original American literature . These gentlemen forget that national literature cannot be forced like a hothouse plant . Talking about it has no tendency to produce it . They seem to think that American authors ought to limit themselves ...
... original American literature . These gentlemen forget that national literature cannot be forced like a hothouse plant . Talking about it has no tendency to produce it . They seem to think that American authors ought to limit themselves ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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