Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Perry, Carolyn.
2. Weaks-Baxter, Mary.

Description

1. xvii, 689 pages; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Southern literary studies

Uniform title

1. Southern literary studies.

Subject

1. American literature > Southern States > History and criticism
2. American literature > History and criticism
3. Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States
4. Women > Southern States > Intellectual life
5. Women and literature > Southern States
6. Letterkunde
7. Amerikaans
8. Vrouwelijke auteurs
9. Littérature américaine > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire et critique
10. Littérature américaine > Histoire et critique
11. Écrivains américains > Résidences et lieux familiers > États-Unis (Sud)
12. Femmes et littérature > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire
13. États-Unis (Sud) dans la littérature
14. Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique
15. Southern States > Intellectual life
16. Southern States > In literature
17. États-Unis (Sud) > Vie intellectuelle

Contents

1. I. The antebellum and bellum south (beginnings to 1865). Introduction to part I -- Antebellum journals and collections of letters -- Captivity narratives -- Gender issues in the old South -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney -- The novel -- Women's magazines -- Caroline Howard Gilman -- The Grimké sisters -- Louisa S. McCord -- Caroline Lee Hentz -- Early African American women writers -- Southern women writers' response to Uncle Tom's cabin -- Harriet Ann Jacobs -- Civil War diaries and memoirs -- Mary Chesnut -- II. The postbellum South (1865-1900). Introduction to part II -- The new woman of the.
2. new South -- The postbellum novel -- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson -- Southern history in the imagination of African American women writers -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Southern women journalists -- Southern women humorists -- Mary Noailles Murfree -- Southern women poets of the Victorian Age -- Louisiana writers of the postbellum South -- Kate Chopin -- Grace King -- Anna Julia Cooper -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- III. Renaissance in the South (1900-1960). Introduction to part III -- Southern women writers and the beginning of the Renaissance -- The modern novel -- Gone with the Wind and its influence --
3. Southern women's autobiography -- Women writers and the myths of southern womanhood -- Re-visioning the southern land -- Women writers of the Harlem Renaissance -- Appalachian writers -- Southern women writers and social issues -- The growing importance of literary circles and mentors -- Ellen Glasgow -- Julia Peterkin -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Frances Newman -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Evelyn Scott -- Caroline Gordon -- Lillian Smith -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Lillian Hellman -- Eudora Welty -- Carson McCullers -- Flannery O'Connor -- Harper Lee -- IV. The contemporary South (1960 to the.
4. present). Introduction to part IV -- Myths of southern womanhood in contemporary literature -- Southern women writers and the women's movement -- Contemporary autobiography and memoir -- Contemporary writers and race -- Contemporary poetry -- Southern women writers in a changing landscape -- A second southern renaissance -- Margaret Walker -- Mary Lee Settle -- Elizabeth Spencer -- Ellen Douglas -- Maya Angelou -- Shirley Ann Grau -- Doris Betts -- Sonia Sanchez -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Gail Godwin -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Anne Tyler -- Alice Walker -- Rita Mae Brown -- Lee Smith -- Josephine.
5. Humphreys -- Dorothy Allison -- Beth Henley -- Jayne Anne Phillips -- Jill McCorkle -- Kaye Gibbons -- Afterward: The future of southern women's writing -- Appendix: The study of southern women's literature.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [633]-640) and index.