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Deep Water
Mark Twain's visions of the Mississippi River offer some of the most indelible images in American literature: Huck and Jim floating downstream on their raft, Tom Sawyer and friends …
The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress
In The Angelic Mother and the Predatory Seductress, Ashley Craig Lancaster examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern …
Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster
Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning …
The Fourth Ghost
In the 1949 classic Killers of the Dream, Lillian Smith described three racial ""ghosts"" haunting the mind of the white South: the black woman with whom the white man often had …
The Language of Vision
The Language of Vision celebrates and interprets the complementary expressions of photography and literature in the South. Southern imagery and text affect one another, explains …
Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner
Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner is a strikingly original study of works by three postbellum novelists with strong ties to the …
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
In America's twentieth century, there is no man of letters more versatile, distinguished, and influential than the poet, novelist, editor, critic, social commentator, and teacher …
Ruin and Resilience
In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen …
The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor believed that fiction must try to achieve something on the order of what St. Gregory wrote about Scripture: every time it presents a fact, it must also disclose a …
The Art of Walker Percy
The writings of Walker Percy, as Panthea Broughton notes in her introduction, are at once both accessible and inaccessible. Because they tempt readers to identify with characters …