A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920Ben Forkner, Patrick H. Samway The literary Canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. The literary canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. Editors Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, S. J. have selected from the most original and lasting works of nineteenth-century Southern writing (1820-1920) to reflect the full range of the Southern experience. The thorough introduction illuminates the individual pieces, providing insight into the culture of the Old South, from which rose a new generation of prominent, American writers. Features the work of Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ellen Glasgow, Henry Grady, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Jefferson, James Weldon Johnson, Sidney Lanier, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and many others. |
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... Southern sterotypes , especially when he deals with the extremes of Southern society and turns his attention toward the Southern adult . Twain obviously took great pains with the other characters in the novel , particularly with Jim ...
... Southern sterotypes , especially when he deals with the extremes of Southern society and turns his attention toward the Southern adult . Twain obviously took great pains with the other characters in the novel , particularly with Jim ...
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... Southern writer , Poe is somewhat of an embarrassment to Southern scholars and to anthologists because little of what he wrote is conspicuously Southern . The best one can do is offer a couple of his most celebrated poems , and rather ...
... Southern writer , Poe is somewhat of an embarrassment to Southern scholars and to anthologists because little of what he wrote is conspicuously Southern . The best one can do is offer a couple of his most celebrated poems , and rather ...
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... Southern humorists before the Civil War , or , as far as the Southern black was concerned , to the simple clownish reductions of the black - face minstrel shows that had begun in the 1820's and 1830's , and by the late 1840's had become ...
... Southern humorists before the Civil War , or , as far as the Southern black was concerned , to the simple clownish reductions of the black - face minstrel shows that had begun in the 1820's and 1830's , and by the late 1840's had become ...
Contents
A Plantation Echo | 106 |
The Edisto Raftsman | 122 |
Selections from Slave Narratives and Diaries | 131 |
Copyright | |
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