Author: Thomas Nelson PagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Novels, Stories, Sketches, and Poems of Thomas Nelson Page
Author: Thomas Nelson PageRed Rock
Author: Thomas Nelson PageRed Rock
Author: Thomas Nelson PageThe Dream of Arcady
Author: Lucinda Hardwick MacKethanPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807153567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
"This is a well-organized, gracefully written account of a significant aspect of Southern fiction, and it contains information and incisive commentary that one can find nowhere else." --Thomas Daniel Young Many southern writers imagined the South as a qualified dream of Arcady. They retained the glow of the golden land as a device to expose or rebuke, to confront or escape the complexities of the actual times in which they lived. The Dream of Arcady examines the work of post-Civil War southern writers who criticize the myth of the South as pastoral paradise. Sooner or later in all their idealized worlds, the idyllic vision fades in an inescapable moment of awakening. This moment, which is central to MacKethan's study, produces an atmosphere pastoral in mood and implications. Her perspective analysis juxtaposes the responses of Sidney Lanier, Joel Chandler Harris, and Thomas Nelson Page, who contributed to yet hope to transcend sectionalism, with the ambivalent views of black writers Charles Chesnutt and Jean Toomer. Considering the writings of the Agrarians, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty, MacKethan then concludes her study by questioning whether the Arcadian dream still serves the artist of our era as a frame for artistic and ideological purposes.
The Novels, Stories, Sketches and Poems of Thomas Nelson Page
Author: Thomas Nelson PageOne Homogeneous People
Author: Trent A. WattsPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572337435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Southerners have a reputation as storytellers, as a people fond of telling about family, community, and the southern way of life. A compelling book about some of those stories and their consequences, One Homogeneous People examines the forging and the embracing of southern “pan-whiteness” as an ideal during the volatile years surrounding the turn of the twentieth century. Trent Watts argues that despite real and signifcant divisions within the South along lines of religion, class, and ethnicity, white southerners—especially in moments of perceived danger—asserted that they were one people bound by a shared history, a love of family, home, and community, and an uncompromising belief in white supremacy. Watts explores how these southerners explained their region and its people to themselves and other Americans through narratives found in a variety of forms and contexts: political oratory, fiction, historiography, journalism, correspondence, literary criticism, and the built environment. Watts examines the assertions of an ordered, homogeneous white South (and the threats to it) in the unsettling years following the end of Reconstruction through the early 1900s. In three extended essays on related themes of race and power, the book demonstrates the remarkable similarity of discourses of pan-whiteness across formal and generic lines. In an insightful concluding essay that focuses on an important but largely unexamined institution, Mississippi’s Neshoba County Fair, Watts shows how narratives of pan-white identity initiated in the late nineteenth century have persisted to the present day. Written in a lively style, One Homogeneous People is a valuable addition to the scholarship on southern culture and post-Reconstruction southern history.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Southern Literature
Author: Edwin Anderson AldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Red Rock ; 1
Author: Thomas Nelson PageLibrary of Southern Literature: Historical side-lights, 50 reading courses, chart, bibliography and index
Author: Edwin Anderson AldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description