The roots of Southern writing ; essays on the literature of the American South / [by] C. Hugh Holman.
| Author/creator | Holman, C. Hugh |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1972] |
| Description | xiii, 236 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The Southerner as American writer.--Simms and the wider world: Views and reviews.--William Gilmore Simms's picture of the Revolution as a civil war.--The influence of Scott and Cooper on Simms.--Simms and the British dramatists.--William Gilmore Simms and the American Renaissance.--The novel in the South.--The view from the Regency Hyatt.--Ellen Glasgow: the novelist of manners as social critic.--The dark, ruined Helen of his blood: Thomas Wolfe and the South.--The loneliness at the core.--Europe as catalyst for Thomas Wolfe.--The unity of Faulkner's Light in August.--Absalom, Absalom! The historian as detective.--Her rue with a difference.--Literature and culture: the fugitive-agrarians.--Three views of the real. |
| Local note | Little-81358 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| LCCN | 74184774 |
| ISBN | 0820302902 |
| Stock number | $10.00 |