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SOUTHERN WRITERS AND THEIR WORLDS.
Morris, Christopher; Susan A. Eacker; Anne Goodwyn Jones; Bertram Wyatt-Brown; and Charles Joyner (contributors). Michael O'Brien (Introduction). Christopher Morris and Steven G. Reinhardt (editors).
Language: English
Published by Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press [LSU Press], [June] 1998., 1998
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Reprint (first published 1996). Publisher's review copy with review-slip laid-in. x, 162 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Stiff paper covers lightly rubbed. Pages are bright and clean. Binding remains fairly crisp. A near fine copy. Publisher's summary: "five historians and literary critics explore the many ways that sou…thern writers influence and are influenced by their region. Christopher Morris examines the relationship between economic development and the humor of several 'Old Southwestern' writers, while Susan A. Eacker explains how South Carolina author Louisa McCord came to defend slavery. Anne Goodwyn Jones offers a penetrating deconstruction of gender in the southern literary renaissance, Charles Joyner reassesses William Styron's controversial decision to write 'The Confessions of Nat Turner' in the first person, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown reveals the connection between depression and literary creativity." ISBN 0807122742.
