The history of Southern literature / General Ed. Louis D[ecimus] Rubin
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Baton Rouge, La. [u.a.] : Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1985 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 626 S. |
| ISBN: | 0807112518 9780807112519 |
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| Enthält: | pt. 1. Colonial and antebellum Southern literature, 1607-1860. The beginnings ; Captain John Smith pt. 3. The Southern renascence, 1920-1950. The ambivalent heart : literary revival in Richmond pt. 4. The recent South, 1951-1982. A second generation of novelists Literature in the eighteenth-century colonial South William Byrd of Westover The ideology of revolution 1776-1815 The old South, 1815-1840 Antebellum fiction ; William Gilmore Simms Antebellum poetry Edgar Allan Poe Antebellum humor Literary magazines in the old South The mind of the antebellum South pt. 2. The war and after, 1861-1920. The Civil War and authorship Poetry of the late nineteenth century Local color in Louisiana Plantation fiction, 1865-1900 Varieties of local color Kate Chopin Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) Henry W. Grady and the new South Humor, romance, and realism at the turn of the century The rise of the critical temper Fiction in the 1920s : some new voices Southern standard-bearers in the new Negro Renaissance The new poetry The fugitives : Ransom, Davidson, Tate William Faulkner Thomas Wolfe The fiction of social commitment The memory of the war Gone with the wind and others : popular fiction, 1920-1950 The passion of craft Black novelists and novels, 1930-1950 Regions and rebels Editors and critics The search for identity The Agrarians Modern Southern drama Richard Wright Robert Penn Warren Eudora Welty James Agee William Styron Truman Capote Carson McCullers Flannery O'Connor Peter Taylor Elizabeth Spencer Shelby Foote Walker Percy Ralph W. Ellison ; Ernest J. Gaines John Barth Reynolds Price Madison Jones Old ways and new ways Poets after midcentury Randall Jarrell James Dickey Archie Randolph Ammons Black writers in a changed landscape, since 1950 The future of Southern writing The study of Southern literature The black academy and Southern literature |
| Zusammenfassung: | pt. 1. Colonial and antebellum Southern literature, 1607-1860. The beginnings ; Captain John Smith / J.A. Leo Lemay -- Literature in the eighteenth-century colonial South / Robert D. Arner -- William Byrd of Westover / Robert Bain -- The ideology of revolution / Lewis P. Simpson -- 1776-1815 / Lewis Leary -- The old South, 1815-1840 / Craig Werner -- Antebellum fiction ; William Gilmore Simms / Mary Ann Wimsatt -- Antebellum poetry / Rayburn S. Moore -- Edgar Allan Poe / Robert D. Jacobs -- Antebellum humor / Mary Ann Wimsatt and Robert L. Phillips -- Literary magazines in the old South / Richard J. Calhoun -- The mind of the antebellum South / Lewis P. Simpson -- pt. 2. The war and after, 1861-1920. The Civil War and authorship / Elisabeth Muhlenfeld -- Poetry of the late nineteenth century / Rayburn S. Moore -- Local color in Louisiana / Thomas Richardson -- Plantation fiction, 1865-1900 / Lucinda H. Mackethan -- Varieties of local color / Merrill Maguire Skaggs -- Kate Chopin / Anne Rowe -- Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- Henry W. Grady and the new South / Dewey W. Grantham -- Humor, romance, and realism at the turn of the century / Wayne Mixon -- The rise of the critical temper / Fred Hobson -- pt. 3. The Southern renascence, 1920-1950. The ambivalent heart : literary revival in Richmond / Edgar E. MacDonald -- Fiction in the 1920s : some new voices / Joseph M. Flora -- Southern standard-bearers in the new Negro Renaissance / Thadious M. Davis -- The new poetry / Mark Royden Winchell -- The fugitives : Ransom, Davidson, Tate / Thomas Daniel Young -- William Faulkner / Cleanth Brooks -- Thomas Wolfe / Louis D. Rubin, Jr. -- The fiction of social commitment / James Mellard -- The memory of the war / John Pilkington -- Gone with the wind and others : popular fiction, 1920-1950 / Anne Goodwyn Jones -- The passion of craft / M.E. Bradford -- Black novelists and novels, 1930-1950 / Lee Greene -- Regions and rebels / Herschel Gower -- Editors and critics / Thomas Daniel Young -- The search for identity / William C. Havard -- The Agrarians / Thomas Daniel Young -- Modern Southern drama / Jacob H. Adler -- Richard Wright / Blyden Jackson -- Robert Penn Warren / James H. Justus -- pt. 4. The recent South, 1951-1982. A second generation of novelists / Thomas Daniel Young -- Eudora Welty / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw -- James Agee / David Marion Holman -- William Styron / Lewis A. Lawson -- Truman Capote / Thomas Bonner, Jr. -- Carson McCullers / Joseph R. Millichap -- Flannery O'Connor / Louise Y. Gossett -- Peter Taylor / David Marion Holman -- Elizabeth Spencer / Peggy Whitman Prenshaw -- Shelby Foote / Robert L. Phillips -- Walker Percy / Lewis A. Lawson -- Ralph W. Ellison ; Ernest J. Gaines / Theodore R. Hudson -- John Barth / Lewis A. Lawson -- Reynolds Price / Michael Kreyling -- Madison Jones / M.E. Bradford -- Old ways and new ways / Martha E. Cook -- Poets after midcentury / James H. Justus -- Randall Jarrell / William Harmon -- James Dickey / Richard J. Calhoun -- Archie Randolph Ammons / William Harmon -- Black writers in a changed landscape, since 1950 / Trudier Harris -- The future of Southern writing / Donald R. Noble -- The study of Southern literature / M. Thomas Inge -- The black academy and Southern literature / Blyden Jackson |