Title Upon provincialism : southern literature and national periodical culture, 1870-1900 / Bill Hardwig

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents "The creative potency of hunger" : travel writing, local color, and the charting of the postwar South -- Unveiling the body : literary reception and the outing of Charles W. Chesnutt and Mary N. Murfree -- On the fringes : local color's haunting of the unified South -- "Wooing the muse of the odd" : New Orleans at the gate of the tropics Summary Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-color fiction about the South, the author tracks the ways in which the nation's leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century South. In many ways, he attests, the national representation of the South was controlled more firmly by periodical editors working in the Northeast, such as William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Richard Watson Gilder, than by writers living in and writing about the region. Fears about national unity, immigration, industrialization, and racial dynamics in the South could be explored through the safe and displaced realm of a regional literature that was often seen as mere entertainment or as a picturesque depiction of quaint rural life. The author examines in depth the short work of George Washington Cable, Charles Chesnutt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Lafcadio Hearn, Mary Noailles Murfree, and Thomas Nelson Page in the context of the larger periodical investment in the South. Arguing that this local-color fiction calls into question some of the lines of demarcation within U.S. and southern literary and cultural studies, especially those offered by identity-based models, the author returns these writers to the dynamic cultural exchanges within the local-color fiction from which they initially emerged Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism Journalism and literature -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century Multiculturalism in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature Journalism and literature Literature Multiculturalism in literature SUBJECT Southern States -- In literature Subject Southern States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813934068 0813934060

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