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The history of southern women's literature

Title
The history of southern women's literature / edited by Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks.
Publication
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Perry, Carolyn.
  • Weaks-Baxter, Mary.
Description
xvii, 689 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Southern literary studies
Uniform Title
Southern literary studies.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [633]-640) and index.
Contents
  • I. The antebellum and bellum south (beginnings to 1865). Introduction to part I -- Antebellum journals and collections of letters -- Captivity narratives -- Gender issues in the old South -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney -- The novel -- Women's magazines -- Caroline Howard Gilman -- The Grimké sisters -- Louisa S. McCord -- Caroline Lee Hentz -- Early African American women writers -- Southern women writers' response to Uncle Tom's cabin -- Harriet Ann Jacobs -- Civil War diaries and memoirs -- Mary Chesnut -- II. The postbellum South (1865-1900). Introduction to part II -- The new woman of the.
  • new South -- The postbellum novel -- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson -- Southern history in the imagination of African American women writers -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Southern women journalists -- Southern women humorists -- Mary Noailles Murfree -- Southern women poets of the Victorian Age -- Louisiana writers of the postbellum South -- Kate Chopin -- Grace King -- Anna Julia Cooper -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- III. Renaissance in the South (1900-1960). Introduction to part III -- Southern women writers and the beginning of the Renaissance -- The modern novel -- Gone with the Wind and its influence --
  • Southern women's autobiography -- Women writers and the myths of southern womanhood -- Re-visioning the southern land -- Women writers of the Harlem Renaissance -- Appalachian writers -- Southern women writers and social issues -- The growing importance of literary circles and mentors -- Ellen Glasgow -- Julia Peterkin -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Frances Newman -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Evelyn Scott -- Caroline Gordon -- Lillian Smith -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Lillian Hellman -- Eudora Welty -- Carson McCullers -- Flannery O'Connor -- Harper Lee -- IV. The contemporary South (1960 to the.
  • present). Introduction to part IV -- Myths of southern womanhood in contemporary literature -- Southern women writers and the women's movement -- Contemporary autobiography and memoir -- Contemporary writers and race -- Contemporary poetry -- Southern women writers in a changing landscape -- A second southern renaissance -- Margaret Walker -- Mary Lee Settle -- Elizabeth Spencer -- Ellen Douglas -- Maya Angelou -- Shirley Ann Grau -- Doris Betts -- Sonia Sanchez -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Gail Godwin -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Anne Tyler -- Alice Walker -- Rita Mae Brown -- Lee Smith -- Josephine.
  • Humphreys -- Dorothy Allison -- Beth Henley -- Jayne Anne Phillips -- Jill McCorkle -- Kaye Gibbons -- Afterward: The future of southern women's writing -- Appendix: The study of southern women's literature.
ISBN
  • 0807127531 (alk. paper)
  • 9780807127537 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2001005342
  • 99959965361
OCLC
  • 47927587
  • ocm47927587
  • SCSB-4269693
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries