Louis Decimus Rubin - The History of Southern literature
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American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, Southern States--In literature.
publication date
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1985
lcc
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PS261.H53 1985eb
ddc
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810/.9/975/
subject
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American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, Southern States--In literature.
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The History Of Southern Literature
General Editor Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Senior Editors Blyden Jackson Rayburn S. Moore Lewis P. Simpson Thomas Daniel Young
Associate Editor Mary Ann Wimsatt
Managing Editor Robert L. Phillips
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Copyright 1985 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Designer: Albert Crochet Typeface: Linotron Sabon Typesetter: G&S Typesetters, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: The History of Southern literature. Includes index. I. American literatureSouthern StatesHistory and criticism, 2. Southern States in literature. I. Rubin, Louis Decimus, 1923 PS261.H53 1985 810'.9'975 85-10183 ISBN 0-8071-1251-8
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This book is dedicated to the memory of C. HUGH HOLMAN by its editors who were also his friends and who remain his beneficiaries
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
1
Part I Colonial and Antebellum Southern Literature, 16071860
Introduction to Part I
Lewis P. Simpson
9
The Beginnings
J. A. Leo Lemay
13
Captain John Smith
J. A. Leo Lemay
26
Literature in the Eighteenth Century Colonial South
Robert D. Arner
34
William Byrd of Westover
Robert Bain
48
The Ideology of Revolution
Lewis P. Simpson
57
17761815
Lewis Leary
68
The Old South, 18151840
Craig Werner
81
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Antebellum Fiction
Mary Ann Wimsatt
92
William Gilmore Simms
Mary Ann Wimsatt
108
Antebellum Poetry
Rayburn S. Moore
118
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert D. Jacobs
127
Antebellum Humor
Mary Ann Wimsatt and Robert L. Phillips
136
Literary Magazines in the Old South
Richard J. Calhoun
157
The Mind of the Antebellum South
Lewis P. Simpson
164
Part II The War and After, 18611920
Introduction to Part II
Rayburn S. Moore
177
The Civil War and Authorship
Elisabeth Muhlenfeld
178
Poetry of the Late Nineteenth Century
Rayburn S. Moore
188
Local Color in Louisiana
Thomas Richardson
199
Plantation Fiction, 18651900
Lucinda H. Mackethan
209
Varieties of Local Color
Merrill Maguire Skaggs
219
Kate Chopin
Anne Rowe
228
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
Louis D. Rubin, JR.
233
Henry W. Grady and the New South
Dewey W. Grantham
241
Humor, Romance, and Realism at the Turn of the Century
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