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 77
... speak with confidence of the general truthfulness of its treatment . The life of the planter , the squatter , the Indian , the negro , the bold and hardy pioneer , and the vigorous yeoman - these are the subjects . In their delineation ...
... speak with confidence of the general truthfulness of its treatment . The life of the planter , the squatter , the Indian , the negro , the bold and hardy pioneer , and the vigorous yeoman - these are the subjects . In their delineation ...
Page 103
... speak for their wants , speak to their affections , and satisfy their longing desires , after a voice and a song , which should illustrate the peculiar nature of their own woods and wilds and waters - their moral and society - their ...
... speak for their wants , speak to their affections , and satisfy their longing desires , after a voice and a song , which should illustrate the peculiar nature of their own woods and wilds and waters - their moral and society - their ...
Page 158
... speak of the insidious nature of certain dangers to which it is exposed , not too soon to point out certain limitations by which it is marked , not too soon to emphasize again and again what the younger writers of the South must ...
... speak of the insidious nature of certain dangers to which it is exposed , not too soon to point out certain limitations by which it is marked , not too soon to emphasize again and again what the younger writers of the South must ...
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Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952 John Earl Bassett Limited preview - 1997 |
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