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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... popular mind is not what it should be . It has taken a wrong direction , and either sleeps where it should worship , or sinks and struggles in a wallow from which its own prayers , addressed to the wrong deities , will never be strong ...
... popular mind is not what it should be . It has taken a wrong direction , and either sleeps where it should worship , or sinks and struggles in a wallow from which its own prayers , addressed to the wrong deities , will never be strong ...
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... popular conduct - the only sure pledges for security in a time of great popular commotion . We would have this truth insisted upon by our lead- ing professions - by the clergy in particular - some of whom , we are sad to say , we have ...
... popular conduct - the only sure pledges for security in a time of great popular commotion . We would have this truth insisted upon by our lead- ing professions - by the clergy in particular - some of whom , we are sad to say , we have ...
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... popular sympathy will be with those who upheld the Confederate cause rather than with those by whom it was overthrown ; our popular heroes will be Confederate lead- ers ; our fiction will be Southern in its prevailing types and ...
... popular sympathy will be with those who upheld the Confederate cause rather than with those by whom it was overthrown ; our popular heroes will be Confederate lead- ers ; our fiction will be Southern in its prevailing types and ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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