The Cambridge companion to the literature of the American South [electronic resource] / edited by Sharon Monteith.

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"Featuring essays written by an international team of experts, this Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South"-- "This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions, and wr...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Monteith, Sharon
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
Series:Cambridge companions to literature
Subjects:
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States.
Southern States > In literature.
Southern States > Intellectual life.
Online Access:
Cambridge Companions Online: Full Collection: 2013 (Digital Object Identifier Permalink)
ProQuest One Literature: 2013 (ProQuest)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: mapping the figurative South Sharon Monteith; 1. Region, genre, and the nineteenth-century South Kathryn B. McKee; 2. Slave narratives and neo-slave narratives Judie Newman; 3. Literature and the Civil War Will Kaufman; 4. Literature and Reconstruction Scott Romine; 5. Southern verse in poetry and song Ernest Suarez; 6. Southern modernists and modernity David A. Davis; 7. Poverty and progress Sarah Robertson; 8. The southern renaissance and the Faulknerian South John T. Matthews; 9. Southern women writers and their influence Pearl McHaney; 10. Hollywood dreaming: southern writers and the movies Sarah Gleeson-White; 11. Civil rights fiction Sharon Monteith; 12. Southern drama Gary Richards; 13. Queering the South Michael Bibler; 14. Immigrant writers: transnational stories of a 'worlded' South Nahem Yousaf.