Michael O'brien Contributors (4 results)

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 southern 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.

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). xiv, 281 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; slight bumping at edges. Blue cloth. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Primary contents = "Foreword: Empire Building and Empire Wrecking" by Joseph P. Ward; "Virginia's Religious Revolution: From Established Monopoly to Free Marketplace" by Franklin T. Lambert; "Power and Authority in the Colonial South: The English Legacy and its Contradictions" by Holly Brewer; "'Like a Stone Wall Never to Be Broke': The British-Indian Boundary Line with the Creek Indians, 1763-1773" by Kathryn E. Holland Braund; "Carolinians Abroad: Cultivating English Identities from the Colonial Lower South" by S. Max Edelson; "The American South and English Print Satire, 1760-1865" by Marcus Wood; "British Views of the Confederacy" by R.J.M. Blackett; "The South and the British Left, 1930-1960" by Hugh Wilford; "'By Elvis and All the Saints': Images of the American South in the World of 1950s British Popular Music" by Brian Ward; "Afterword: On the Irrelevance of Knights" by Michael O'Brien. ISBN 1578065801.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 168pp. Collection of poems including all the last poems of Ken Smith (1938-2003) as well as other uncollected work. Tributes from other poets, photographs, interviews and biographical notes. Illustrated green covers with orange lettering on front and spine. Few tiny spots on lower page edge corner. Gift inscription for Patricia & William signed by Judi (Benson) on first title page, dated 4 July 2004. The Oxley's neat ownership stamp also on this page. No other inscriptions. In near fine condition. Signed by a Contributor.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. A lovely copy of this scarce issue! Fine condition -- clean, bright, tight -- with no markings or defects. Also includes poems by Hayden Carruth and Dabney Stuart. Ships from NC. All journals are sealed in recycled plastic, packaged securely with recycled cardboard backing, and shipped promptly.