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Product Description: Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. They fall into two categories. Some, born into the working class, strove to become writers and learned without benefit of higher education, such writers as Larry Brown and William Gay...read more
By Keith Perry (editor)

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9781496802330 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, February 12, 2016, cover price $65.00

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9781496810526 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Mississippi, October 1, 2016), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays in Rough South, Rural South describe and discuss the work of southern writers who began their careers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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9780393241112 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 8, 2015, cover price $25.95

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9780393353297 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 13, 2016), cover price $15.95
9780440206668, titled "Fighting Words: From War, Rebellion, and Other Combative Capers" | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, August 1, 1990), cover price $5.95 | also contains Fighting Words: From War, Rebellion, and Other Combative Capers

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Product Description: In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders...read more

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9781469628882 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 7, 2016, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean.

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9781469626208 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 7, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean.

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Product Description: The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the region in a series of chapters employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching Southern literature...read more
By Barbara Ladd (editor)

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9780199767472 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 4, 2016, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.

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Product Description: Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality...read more

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9780807160053 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, June 15, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Employing recent theories of memory from multiple areas of study, Possessing the Past illuminates the tangled relationships among trauma, fantasy, and the public sphere, and their impact on the "South" in imagination and in reality.

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Product Description: After the Civil War, the South was divided into five military districts occupied by Union forces. Out of these regions, a remarkable group of writers emerged. Experiencing the long-lasting ramifications of Reconstruction firsthand, many of these writers sought to translate the era's promise into practice...read more

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9781469621074 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, May 4, 2015, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: After the Civil War, the South was divided into five military districts occupied by Union forces.

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9780394905068, titled "Mary, Queen of Scots" | Random House Childrens Books, February 1, 1963, cover price $2.95 | also contains Mary, Queen of Scots

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Product Description: In the fifty years since her death, Flannery O’Connor studies have been conventionally delimited to two critical parameters: the South and the Church of Rome. This work challenges the conception of O’Connor as inherent to a monolithic South and to orthodox Roman Catholicism by problematizing the “Southern Gothic” trope, positing a non-canonical Southern realism, and repositioning O’Connor as essentially ecumenical in her private theology...read more

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9780881465280, titled "The Church Without the Church: Desert Orthodoxy in Flannery O'Connor's "Dear Old Dirty Southland"" | Mercer Univ Pr, April 15, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the fifty years since her death, Flannery O’Connor studies have been conventionally delimited to two critical parameters: the South and the Church of Rome.

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9780440170068, titled "Poseidon Adventure" | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, June 1, 1972), cover price $2.50 | also contains Poseidon Adventure | About this edition: Vintage paperback

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Product Description: The impulses that fired the Southern Literary Renaissance echoed the impetus behind the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the twentieth century, when Ireland sought to demonstrate its cultural equality with any European nation and disentangle itself from English-imposed stereotypes...read more

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9781611494341 | Univ of Delaware Pr, December 22, 2012, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The impulses that fired the Southern Literary Renaissance echoed the impetus behind the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the twentieth century, when Ireland sought to demonstrate its cultural equality with any European nation and disentangle itself from English-imposed stereotypes.

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9781611495676 | Reprint edition (Univ of Delaware Pr, February 24, 2015), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: The impulses that fired the Southern Literary Renaissance echoed the impetus behind the Irish Literary Revival at the turn of the twentieth century, when Ireland sought to demonstrate its cultural equality with any European nation and disentangle itself from English-imposed stereotypes.

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Product Description: Scarlett O’Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again. Vardaman Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner’s Jefferson, and the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products associated with the South, the connections between them have not been thoroughly explored until now...read more
By Tara Powell (editor)

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9781628460230 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, August 4, 2014, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Scarlett O’Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again.

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Product Description: Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans. This study views that tragic reality through the lens of eight authors - representatives of a South that seemed, to them, destined for greatness but was, we know, on the brink of destruction...read more

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9781107013377 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 13, 2012, cover price $104.99

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9781107670655 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 17, 2014), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: Before the Civil War, most Southern white people were as strongly committed to freedom for their kind as to slavery for African Americans.

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Product Description: Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries...read more

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9781409451051 | Ashgate Pub Co, April 28, 2014, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Looking at works by Carrie Mae Weems, Toni Morrison, Emily Dickinson, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Zora Neale Hurston, Claire Raymond uncovers a pattern of femininity constructed around representations of sadistic violence in American women's literature and photography from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South. From pre- and post-Civil War literature to modernist and civil rights fictions, and writing by immigrants in the 'global' South of the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, these newly commissioned essays from leading scholars explore the region's established and emergent literary traditions. Touching on poetry and song, drama and screenwriting, key figures such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, and iconic texts such as Gone with the Wind, chapters investigate how issues of class, poverty, sexuality, and regional identity have textured Southern writing across generations. The volume's rich contextual approach highlights patterns and connections between writers while offering insight into the development of Southern literary criticism, making this Companion a valuable guide for students and teachers of American literature, American studies, and the history of storytelling in America.
By Sharon Monteith (editor)

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9781107036789 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 19, 2013, cover price $89.99 | About this edition: This Companion maps the dynamic literary landscape of the American South.

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9781107610859 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 19, 2013, cover price $29.99

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Product Description: In this expansive study, Bryan Giemza recovers a neglected subculture and retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers from the U.S. South. Giemza offers a defining new view of Irish American authors and their interrelationships within both transatlantic and ethnic regional contexts...read more

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9780807150900 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, July 8, 2013, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In this expansive study, Bryan Giemza recovers a neglected subculture and retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers from the U.

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Product Description: Discover and explore the most fabled venues in American letters. Follow in the footsteps of some of American literature’s most renowned writers: See the hotel in Louisville, Kentucky, that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald to pen The Great Gatsby...read more

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9781581571493 | Countryman Pr, August 26, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Discover and explore the most fabled venues in American letters.

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Product Description: Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation of scholarly interest...read more
By Ed Piacentino (editor)

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9781617037689 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, May 6, 2013, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal.

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Product Description: In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers―William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison―to examine the father's function as a "border figure...read more

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9780813933993 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 6, 2013, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In an original contribution to the psychoanalytic approach to literature, Doreen Fowler focuses on the fiction of four major American writers―William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor, and Toni Morrison―to examine the father's function as a "border figure.

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Product Description: Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-color fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation's leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century South...read more

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9780813934044 | Univ of Virginia Pr, April 15, 2013, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-color fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation's leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century South.

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9780813934051 | Univ of Virginia Pr, April 15, 2013, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-color fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation's leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century South.

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Product Description: While John Winthrop might have famously uttered the phrase “city upon a hill” on the way to Massachusetts, the strands of millennialism and exceptionalism that remain so central to U.S. political discourse are now dominated by eschatological visions that have emerged from the particular historical experiences of the U...read more

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9780814293034 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, September 30, 2012), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: While John Winthrop might have famously uttered the phrase “city upon a hill” on the way to Massachusetts, the strands of millennialism and exceptionalism that remain so central to U.
9780814212011 | Ohio State Univ Pr, September 30, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: While John Winthrop might have famously uttered the phrase “city upon a hill” on the way to Massachusetts, the strands of millennialism and exceptionalism that remain so central to U.

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Product Description: The idea of place—any place—remains one of our most basic yet slippery concepts. It is a space with boundaries whose limits may be definite or indefinite; it can be a real location or an abstract mental, spiritual, or imaginary construction...read more

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9780813041735 | Univ Pr of Florida, August 26, 2012, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: The idea of place—any place—remains one of our most basic yet slippery concepts.

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The Past Is Not Dead is a collection of twenty-one literary and historical essays that will mark the 50th anniversary of the Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. Like its companion volume, Personal Souths, The Past Is Not Dead features the best of the work published in the journal. Essays represent every decade of the journal's history, from the 1960s to the 2000s. Topics covered range from historical essays on the French and Indian War, the New Deal, and Emmett Till's influence on the Black Panther Party to literary figures including William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Eudora Welty and Carson McCullers. Important regional subjects like the Natchez Trace, the Yazoo Basin, the Choctaw Indians, and Mississippi blues are given special attention. Contributors range from noted literary critics such as Margaret Walker Alexander, Virginia Spencer Carr, Susan V. Donaldson, James Justus, and Willie Morris to scholars of African-American studies such as Robert L. Hall and Manning Marble and historians including John Ray Skates, Martha Swain, and Randy Sparks. Collectively, the essays in this volume enrich and illuminate our understanding of southern history, literature, and culture.
By Peggy Whitman Prenshaw (foreword by)

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9781617033032 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 1, 2012, cover price $65.00

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9781617033049 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, July 1, 2012, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The Past Is Not Dead is a collection of twenty-one literary and historical essays that will mark the 50th anniversary of the Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies.

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