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The History of Southern literature / general editor, Louis D. Rubin, Jr. ; senior editors, Blyden Jackson [and others] ; associate editor, Mary Ann Wimsatt.
Published 1985Table of Contents: “…Colonial and antebellum Southern literature, 1607-1860. The beginnings ; Captain John Smith / J.A. …”
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Remapping southern literature : contemporary Southern writers and the West / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
Published 2007Full text (Emerson users only)
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Twentieth-Century Southern Literature.
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Preface; Preface; Introduction; Part One: The Making ofa Southern Literature; 1 The Development of Modern Southern Fiction; 2 Poetry and Politics at Vanderbilt, 1920-40; 3 The New Emphasis on Craftsmanship; 4 Two Major Novelists; 5 Southern Playwrights; Part Two: A Renaissance in Full Swing; 6 The Beginning of Recognition; 7 Southern Regionalism Comes of Age; 8 Women Extend Fiction's Range; 9 The New Black Writers; Part Three: Postwar Development and Diversification; 10 The South After World War II; 11 Postwar Poetry; 12 Mainstream Fiction.…”
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Nineteenth-century Southern literature / J.V. Ridgely.
Published 1980Full text (Emerson users only)
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Calypso magnolia : the crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern literature / John Wharton Lowe.
Published 2016Full text (Emerson users only)
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Prophets and Poets : Southern Literature, 1941-1962 / James Agee Film Project.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Confederacy Alive and Well (1:33) -- South: Black and White Relationships (3:23) -- Mississippi Son: Richard Wright (12:02) -- Social Justice Writers: Lillian Smith (4:13) -- Writing from Within: Eudora Welty (9:26) -- Southern Writers: Decade of the Forties (1:05) -- William Faulkner (7:19) -- Southern Men of Letters: Warren and Ellison (12:20) -- Southern Writers: Sense of Place (4:13) -- Georgia Prophet: Flannery O'Connor (10:17) -- End of the Faulkner Period of Southern Writing (2:51) -- Credits: Prophets and Poets: Southern Literature, 1941-1962 (0:59)…”
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Tell About the South : Southern Literature, 1915-1940 / James Agee Film Project.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…American South: Vast Plain of Mediocrities (2:28) -- American South: Unique History (1:46) -- Essential Nature of Narration (0:57) -- Fugitive Poets/Blues Poets (9:54) -- Harlem Renaissance: Jean Toomer (9:55) -- Mississippi Myth Maker: William Faulkner (18:36) -- Storytelling: Southern Tradition (3:53) -- Popular Southern Storytellers (3:12) -- Leaving the South: Zora and Tom (25:14) -- WWII and Southern Writers (2:53) -- Credits: Tell About the South: Southern Literature, 1915-1940 (1:26)…”
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Upon provincialism : southern literature and national periodical culture, 1870-1900 / Bill Hardwig.
Published 2013Full text (Emerson users only)
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Let Freedom Ring : Southern Literature, 1963 to the New Century / James Agee Film Project.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Call for Social Justice (2:33) -- Southern Writing: Decade of the 1960s (1:38) -- Sons of Slaves and Slave Owners: Ernest Gaines and William Styron (18:38) -- Tell About the South: Walker Percy (10:42) -- Margaret Walker (2:10) -- Black Arts Movement: Alice Walker (10:05) -- Changes in the South (4:06) -- Southern Aviary: Lee Smith, Larry Brown, and More (11:33) -- Southern Writing at the End of the 20th Century (5:49) -- Credits: Let Freedom Ring: Southern Literature, 1963 to the New Century (1:54)…”
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Writing in the kitchen : essays on Southern literature and foodways / edited by David A. Davis, Tara Powell ; foreword by Jessica B. Harris.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…The Economics Of Eating Native Recipes for Survival in Contemporary Southern Literature -- 13. "GNAW THAT BONE CLEAN" Foodways in Contemporary Southern Poetry -- Contributors -- Index.…”
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Notes on the state of Virginia / written by Thomas Jefferson.
Published 2006“…Library of Southern literature.…”
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Literature at the barricades : the American writer in the 1930s / edited by Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson.
Published 1982Table of Contents: “…Trouble on the land : Southern literature and the Great Depression /…”
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Violence from slavery to #BlackLivesMatter : African American history and representation / edited by Andrew Dix and Peter Templeton
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…"My massa whip me, cause I love you" : violence towards slaves in antebellum Southern literature /…”
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The selected writings of Edgar Allan Poe : authoritative texts, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / selected and edited by G.R. Thompson.
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Fears and Fascinations : Representing Catholicism in the American South.
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: Catholic Miscegenations: The Cultural Legacy of Les Cenelles""; ""Chapter 2: Medieval Yearnings: A Catholicism for Whites in Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature""; ""Chapter 3: The Pleasures of Decadence: Catholicism in Kate Chopin, Carson McCullers, and Anne Rice""; ""Chapter 4: Agrarian Catholics: The Catholic Turn in Southern Literature""; ""Chapter 5: Toward Catholicism as Lifestyle: Walker Percy, John Kennedy Toole, and Rebecca Wells""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""…”
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The world of Flannery O'Connor.
Published 1970Table of Contents: “…In search of Flannery O'Connor -- Growing up: two novels -- Living in the world: people and things in A Good Man Is Hard To Find -- The enduring conflict: parents and children in Everything That Rises Must Converge -- What makes her "different": Flannery O'Connor and southern literature.…”
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