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All but forgotten by the time of her death, Evelyn Scott (1893-1963) was one of the most active, creative minds among the American modernists. She is best known for her autobiography ESCAPADE (1923), a shocking first novel, THE NARROW HOUSE (1921), and an acclaimed Civil War book, THE WAVE (1929). Here Mary Wheeling White gives Scotts life and writing the recognition they deserve. 8 photos.

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title Fighting the Current The Life and Work of Evelyn Scott Southern - photo 1

title:Fighting the Current : The Life and Work of Evelyn Scott Southern Literary Studies
author:White, Mary Wheeling.
publisher:Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin:0807122017
print isbn13:9780807122013
ebook isbn13:9780585321059
language:English
subjectScott, Evelyn,--1893- , Novelists, American--20th century--Biography, Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century, Southern States--In literature.
publication date:1998
lcc:PS3537.C89Z93 1998eb
ddc:813/.52
subject:Scott, Evelyn,--1893- , Novelists, American--20th century--Biography, Women and literature--Southern States--History--20th century, Southern States--In literature.
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Fighting the Current
Page iv
Southern Literary Studies
Fred Hobson, Editor
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Fighting the Current The Life and Work of Evelyn Scott Mary Wheeling - photo 2
Fighting the Current
The Life and Work of Evelyn Scott
Mary Wheeling White
Page vi Copyright 1998 by Louisiana State University Press All rights - photo 3
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Copyright 1998 by Louisiana State University Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Designer: Michele Myatt Quinn
Typefaces: Americana, Adobe Garamond
Typesetter: Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc.
Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
White, Mary Wheeling, 1965
Fighting the current : the life and work of Evelyn Scott / Mary
Wheeling White.
p. cm. (Southern literary studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8071-2201-7 (alk. paper)
1. Scott, Evelyn, 1893- Biography. 2. Women novelists,
American20th centuryBiography. I. Title. II. Series.
PS3537.C89Z93 1998
813'.52dc21
[B] 97-25474
CIP
The author wishes to thank Paula Scott for permission to reproduce excerpts of letters, unpublished manuscripts, and published poems by Evelyn Scott; Harold J. Dies, of the Dreiser Trust, for permission to use excerpts of letters from Theodore Dreiser to Evelyn Scott; and Elaine Sproat for permission to reproduce excerpts of letters in her possession from Evelyn Scott to Lola Ridge and David Lawson. The author also offers grateful acknowledgment to the curators of the following collections for permission to reproduce excerpts of unpublished materials: Theodore Dreiser Papers, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania; Grace Lumpkin Papers, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina at Columbia; Louise Morgan and Otto Theis Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; Evelyn Scott Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin; Evelyn Scott Collection, Special Collections Library, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; Sinclair Papers, Lilly Library, Indiana University at Bloomington. Excerpts from the microfilm edition of the Emma Goldman letters were reproduced with the permission of the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Picture 4
Page vii
To my parents
Walter Jay Wheeling and Carolyn Jones Wheeling
Page ix
Contents
Preface
xiii
Abbreviations
xv
Introduction
1
1
A Southern Initiation
7
2
Brazilian Interlude
19
3
Return to the States
38
4
Artistic Triangle
63
5
A New Love
91
6
A Wave of Success
115
7
Politics of Art
162
8
Under Siege
189
9
Falling Action
219
Afterword
233
Bibliography
237
Index
249

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The Gracey Mansion in Clarksville, Tennessee Maude Dunn, ca. 1880s
Seely Dunn, ca. 1890
Maude and Elsie Dunn at Clarksville
Elsie Dunn at Eleven, in St. Louis
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