In the following essay, Sewell assesses the work of several Southern fiction writers of the late nineteenth century.
With the period of recuperation and readjustment which came soon after the Civil...
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In the following essay, Shillingsburg studies representative works by Caroline Hentz, Grace King, and Kate Chopin as they reflect women's changing views in the late nineteenth-century American ...
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In the following essay, Stephens probes the literary precursors of George Washington Cable's novel The Grandissimes and discusses the work as the first fully-realized family saga in Southern li...
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In the following excerpt, Gray addresses historical and biographical elements at work in the early fiction of Ellen Glasgow.
Ellen Glasgow was reluctant to think of herself as a Southern writer. Sh...
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In the following introduction to her book-length study, MacKethan details the post-Reconstruction literary vision of the Old South as a pastoral paradise.
In 1863 a fifteen-year-old printer'...
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In the following essay, MacKethan explores the rhetorical and structural techniques used by writers of the New South in their representation of old plantation myths.
The literary phenomenon of the ...
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In the following essay, Glazer and Key analyze popular depictions of the Old South plantation pastoral in the late nineteenth century.
In simple truth and beyond question there was in our Virginia ...
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In the following essay, Gebhard enumerates culturally subversive qualities in otherwise sentimental representations of white Southern gentlemen in the literature of the New South.
[Colonel Grangerf...
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In the following essay, Rubin surveys Southern literature of the post-Reconstruction period, concentrating on the local color movement, literary depictions of blacks, and the state of poetry.
In 18...
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In the following essay, Ridgely presents an overview of Southern literature between 1879 and 1899, emphasizing major figures and works in the era of local color.
The South's strong resistanc...
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In the following essay, Richardson describes the work of the major local color writers of the New South.
When the journalist Edward King visited New Orleans in early 1873 as representative of ...
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In the following excerpt, Gray concentrates on developments in the literature of the New South from the romance and nostalgia of early writers, to the cultural expressions of Sidney Lanier's po...
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In the following excerpt, Howell summarizes modern historical assessments of the New South, focusing on such themes as Southern distinctiveness, identity, industrialization, economics, populism, and r...
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In the following essay, Simpson comments on the contemporary, politicized interpretation of Mark Twain as the novelist of a regenerate America.
“What are the Great United States for, sir,...
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In the following essay, Rubin examines George Washington Cable's novel John March, Southerner as it illustrates the limitations of the genteel, local color tradition that dominated Southern fic...
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In the following essay, Kreyling appraises the literary tastes of the New South in relation to three novelists: Lafcadio Hearn, Grace King, and George Washington Cable.
The southern writer in the c...
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SEOUL, Jan 3 (Reuters) - South Korea's new president could
ditch the ministry that has long handled relations with North
Korea, heralding what may be a major shift in the way Seoul
deals with its ...
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SEOUL, Jan 14 (Reuters) - South Korea's president-elect
said on Monday he was willing to meet North Korean leader Kim
Jong-il if it would help in ending his reclusive neighbour's
nuclear weapons p...
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SEOUL, Dec 20 (Reuters) - South Korea's president-elect
promised on Thursday to put the economy first once he takes
office and not to be shy about telling prickly North Korea to
mend its ways over...
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Seoul (dpa) - South Korean president-elect Lee Myung Bak said
Monday that he was willing to hold talks with North Korean leader Kim
Jong Il if they would contribute to a nuc...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Indonesian protestors threatened Thursday to hunt
down and forcibly deport Australian citizens in Jakarta unless
Canberra apologized for a diplomatic row inv...
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Prosecutors on Thursday withdrew charges against a celebrity photographer accused of planting a listening device outside Nicole Kidman's mansion.Jamie Fawcett, 41, was charged in January 2005 with ...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Indonesian protestors threatened Thursday to hunt
down and forcibly deport Australian citizens in Jakarta unless
Canberra apologized for a diplomatic row inv...
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