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1 online resource (x, 128 pages) |
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New perspectives on the South |
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New perspectives on the South.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Editor's Preface; PROLOG The Southron; ONE The New World and the Southern Garden; TWO The Growth of Southern Separatism; THREE The Southern Romance: The Matter of Virginia; FOUR The Southern Way of Life: The 1830s and '40s; FIVE On the Eve of War: The Crucial Decade; SIX The Confederacy and the Martyred South; SEVEN The New South: The Past Recaptured; EPILOG The Legacy; Bibliographical Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T ; U; V; W; Y |
| Summary |
Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a ""region"" or of themselves as ""southerners."" In time, the need to defend the entire southern way of life became obsessive for many writers, too often precluding efforts at originality in form or style. Especially after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, southern identity and southern nationalism emerged as the grand themes, and literature became subservient to regional interests. The devastation of the Civil War and the collapse of the Confederacy, instead of pointing southern writers in new directions, only intensified their preoccupation with a now-dead past |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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| Subject |
American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Literature
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Letterkunde.
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Amerikaans.
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Southern States -- In literature
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813164335 |
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0813164338 |
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