The roots of Southern writing ; essays on the literature of the American South

The roots of Southern writing ; essays on the literature of the American South / [by] C. Hugh Holman.

Author/creator	Holman, C. Hugh (Clarence Hugh), 1914-1981
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1972]
Description	xiii, 236 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	American literature--Southern States --History and criticism. Southern States in literature. Southern States--In literature. Southern States--Intellectual life.

Contents	The Southerner as American writer.--Simms and the wider world: Views and reviews.--William Gilmore Simms's picture of the Revolution as a civil war.--The influence of Scott and Cooper on Simms.--Simms and the British dramatists.--William Gilmore Simms and the American Renaissance.--The novel in the South.--The view from the Regency Hyatt.--Ellen Glasgow: the novelist of manners as social critic.--The dark, ruined Helen of his blood: Thomas Wolfe and the South.--The loneliness at the core.--Europe as catalyst for Thomas Wolfe.--The unity of Faulkner's Light in August.--Absalom, Absalom! The historian as detective.--Her rue with a difference.--Literature and culture: the fugitive-agrarians.--Three views of the real.
Local note	Little-81358
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN	74184774
ISBN	0820302902
Stock number	$10.00

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