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.
Temas:
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Literature and society.
Literature.
Civilization.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Literature and society > Southern States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
États-Unis (Sud) > Civilisation > 1775-1865.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
Southern States.
Southern States > In literature.
Southern States > Civilization > 1775-1865.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: The Old South and Historical Causality; I. THE EDGE OF THE SWAMP: Literature and Society in the Old South; II. THE DREAM OF THE PLANTATION: Simms, Hammond, Charleston; III. THE ROMANCE OF THE FRONTIER: Simms, Cooper, and the Wilderness; IV. THE INWARD IMAGINATION: Poe; V. THE POET LAUREATE OF THE CONFEDERACY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

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