Irish Catholic writers and the invention of the American South / Bryan Giemza.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Southern literary series.
Main Author: Giemza, Bryan Albin
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2013]
Series:Southern literary series.
Subjects:
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Southern States > History and criticism.
Irish American Catholics > Southern States.
Southern States > Civilization > Irish influences.
Southern States > Intellectual life.
Southern States > In literature.
Physical Description:xi, 361 pages.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Mavericks of religion
  • Pt. 1. Gospels of war and peace
  • New Irish, old South: revolution and its discontents
  • Old Irish, New South: a bridge to the moderns
  • Pt. 2. Habits of satire and insubordination
  • Staging Irishness
  • Flannery O'Connor's dear old dirty southland
  • Pt. 3. Legacies of flight and return
  • Cormac McCarthy, an Irish southerner among the heresiarchs
  • After Mary Flannery, more strange hatchlings
  • Coda.