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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... region as they may or may not , they often find it devilishly hard to write without first being confined in a readerly box called " Southern literature . " The story of the critical tradition of Southern literature in the twentieth ...
... region as they may or may not , they often find it devilishly hard to write without first being confined in a readerly box called " Southern literature . " The story of the critical tradition of Southern literature in the twentieth ...
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... region , because the North American Review , after all , did not represent the views of all America . The same year Rufus Griswold published a widely used anthology of American poetry and gave few pages to Southern poets , an error ...
... region , because the North American Review , after all , did not represent the views of all America . The same year Rufus Griswold published a widely used anthology of American poetry and gave few pages to Southern poets , an error ...
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... region for thematic materials for fiction . By the 1890s writers like Page and scholars such as W. M. Baskervill could survey a significant accomplishment in the region ; and while a Northerner like William Dean Howells might cast a ...
... region for thematic materials for fiction . By the 1890s writers like Page and scholars such as W. M. Baskervill could survey a significant accomplishment in the region ; and while a Northerner like William Dean Howells might cast a ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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