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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
1989.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780807153635 |