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Hearts of darkness : wellsprings of a southern literary tradition
Title:
Hearts of darkness : wellsprings of a southern literary tradition
Author:
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram, 1932-2012.
Publication Information:
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
xxvi, 235 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
I. The origins of Southern literary melancholy -- Alienation and art : Poe's Raven -- II. Sectionalism, war, defeat -- Literary fire-eaters : a "culture of failure" : Tucker, Hammond, and Ruffin -- "Golden goal" unachieved : William Gilmore Simms & Co.-- "English malady" in Southern poetry : 1830-1880 -- III. Subversive humor, melancholy dualities -- Little shop girl's sad knight : O. Henry -- Trickster motif and disillusion : Uncle Remus and Mark Twain -- IV. The impact of female writers -- Lowering birds at the dawn of modernism : Constance Fenimore Woolson and Kate Chopin -- Female "Southern renaissance" : Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow.
ISBN:
9780807128220

9780807128442
Format :
Book