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  • Reading Southern History

    Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations

    This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of southern history and culture, furthering our understanding of the best historical work produced on the region.Historian Glenn Feldman gathers together a group of essays that examine the efforts of important scholars to discuss and define the South's distinctiveness. The volume includes 18 chapters on ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The War Within

    From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945

    The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the “New South Creed” for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Within, Daniel Joseph Singal examines the struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth–century America and the South’s tenacious blend of Victorianism and the Cavalier myth. He explores the lives and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • William Faulkner

    The Making of a Modernist

    Amid all that has been published about William Faulkner, one subject — the nature of his thought — remains largely unexplored. But, as Daniel Singal’s new intellectual biography reveals, we can learn much about Faulkner’s art by relating it to the cultural and intellectual discourse of his era, and much about that era by coming to terms with his art. Through detailed analyses of individual texts, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • The Fable of the Southern Writer

    "With a breadth and depth unsurpassed by any other cultural historian of the South, Lewis Simpson examines the writing of southerners Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, William Faulkner, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Arthur Crew Inman, William Styron, and Walker Percy. Simpson offers challenging essays of easy erudition blessedly free of academic jargon.... ... Leer más

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  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    **“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book ReviewA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans ... Leer más

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  • One Matchless Time

    A Life of William Faulkner

    de Jay Parini ...
    “Nothing less than spellbinding . . . It’s an eye-opener. Anecdotal without being tawdry, analytical without being academic, it captures the essence of Faulkner’s life with the narrative drive of a novel.” — Houston Chronicle“A splendid life of William Faulkner . . . Not only readable but downright enthralling.” — Seattle TimesWilliam Faulkner was a literary genius, and one of America's most ... Leer más

    $12.49 USD

  • Making Whiteness

    The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940

    Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners re ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Shadow and Act

    de Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Harlem Renaissance

    A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • Reading William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

    This study is intended both for first-time readers of The Sound and the Fury andsince it offers new scholarship and critical argument on Faulknerfor established critics and scholars. Chapter 1 provides some general context about Faulkner's life and work in the American South and 'Yoknapatawpha County', and introduces the form and style of Faulkner's novel. Chapter 2 provides a discussion of the ... Leer más

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  • Tributes

    American Writers on American Writers

    Series Libro 29 - Conjunctions
    Rick Moody on John Cheever; Ben Marcus on Dr. Seuss; Mona Simpson on Henry James: Forty-five essays by great writers, about great writers.For Tributes, Conjunctions invited a number of contemporary writers to pay homage to American literary masters who made something possible for them—whether that was the act of writing itself, writing a certain book, writing in a particular manner, or living in a ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity

    A History of Southern Identity

    de James C. Cobb ...
    From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity served in an engaging blend of history literature and popular culture. In this insightful book written with dry wit and sharp insight James C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came to see ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD