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The Edge of the Swamp : A Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South /

The flowering of literary imagination known as the American Renaissance had few roots in the South. While Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were creating a body of work that would endure, the only southern writer making a lasting contribution was Edgar Allan Poe. This failure on the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rubin, Louis D., Jr. (Louis Decimus), 1923-2013
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The flowering of literary imagination known as the American Renaissance had few roots in the South. While Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were creating a body of work that would endure, the only southern writer making a lasting contribution was Edgar Allan Poe. This failure on the part of antebellum southern writers has long been a subject of debate among students of southern history and literature. Now one of the region's most distinguished men of letters offers a cogently argued and gracefully written account of the circumstances that prevented early southern writers from.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9780807153635