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title	:	A Certain Slant of Light : Regionalism and the Form of Southern and Midwestern Fiction Southern Literary Studies
author	:	Holman, David Marion.
publisher	:	Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807118702
print isbn13	:	9780807118702
ebook isbn13	:	9780585311838
language	:	English
subject	American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, American fiction--Middle West--History and criticism, Southern States--Intellectual life, Middle West--Intellectual life, Southern States--In literature, Regionalism--Southern States, Middle West--
publication date	:	1995
lcc	:	PS261.H653 1995eb
ddc	:	813/.009/975
subject	:	American fiction--Southern States--History and criticism, American fiction--Middle West--History and criticism, Southern States--Intellectual life, Middle West--Intellectual life, Southern States--In literature, Regionalism--Southern States, Middle West--

Page i Southern Literary Studies Fred Hobson, Editor

Page v A Certain Slant of Light Regionalism and the Form of Southern and Midwestern Fiction David Marion Holman With an Introduction by LOUIS D. RUBIN, JR.

Page vi Copyright 1995 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 5 4 3 2 1 Designer: Melanie O'Quinn Samaha Typeface: Bembo Typesetter: Impressions, a division of Edwards Bros., Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Holman, David Marion. A certain slant of light: regionalism and the form of southern and midwestern fiction / David Marion Holman. p. cm. (Southern literary series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8071-1870-2 (cl : alk. paper) 1. American fictionSouthern StatesHistory and criticism. 2. American fictionMiddle WestHistory and criticism. 3. Southern StatesIntellectual life. 4. Middle WestIntellectual life. 5. Southern StatesIn literature. 6. RegionalismSouthern States. 7. Middle WestIn literature. 8. Regionalism in literature. 9. RegionalismMiddle West. I. Title. II. Series. PS261.H653 1995 813'.009'975dc20 95-38271 CIP 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.

Page vii For Jo Ella and Jeff

Page ix Contents Introduction: David Marion Holman, 19511988 by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. 1 1 Why Regionalism? 7 2 Regionalism and Romance: Cooper, Hawthorne, and Simms 25 3 O Brave New World! The Rise of Midwestern Realism 49 4 A History Reinterpreted, a Past Discovered: Ellen Glasgow and Willa Cather 81 5 A Narrowing Distance, a Widening Gyre: Region and Modernism 111 Bibliography 123 Index 131

Page 1 Introduction: David Marion Holman, 19511988 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Sometimes one must confront the human irrationality, the senselessness of pure, unadulterated deprivation. People are taken from us who have so much to offer, and every prospect of being able to offer it in distinguished fashion. It happens in war all the time, of course, but there at least the individual promise and prospects have been set aside by society for its larger ends. But on May 13, 1988, at the age of thirty-six, David Marion Holman, scholar, teacher, gentleman, dutiful son, father, husband, brother, friend, simply dropped dead of a heart attack on a golf course in Oxford, Mississippi. He left a wife, a son, a mother, a sister, an almost-completed book, and a conviction, among those who knew him, that a career as scholar in American literature that promised to be notable indeed had been, inexplicably, unconscionably, ended almost before it began. I write this introduction, and have prepared for publication Dave Hol-

Page 2 man's book, A Certain Slant of Light in the Southern Literary Studies series of Louisiana State University Press, not only because I knew and admired Dave Holman and his distinguished father, C. Hugh Holman. I do so too because for several years I had been working with Dave toward the revision of what had begun as his doctoral dissertation into a book for that series, had seen it develop and take form as it moved from the enforced blandness of a document designed to satisfy the scholarly expectations of a committee of academics, into the more lively and pertinent individuality of a book meant for an anonymous reading audience. It was just about ready, lacking only a possible extension of range at the end that I should have urged Dave to undertake, when the appalling news arrived from Oxford. In point of fact, Dave Holman's death had not come without certain advance warning. In part it was genetically forecast, in that his father had been first stricken with a heart attack while in his mid-thirties. But Hugh had recovered and, despite several other disabling attacks, had enjoyed an active career as teacher, author, and university dean and provost. Dave himself had suffered a heart attack in the late spring of 1984, shortly before he was to be married. He had come back swiftly from that, however, and from other heart complications.

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