The Companion to Southern Literature

by Flora, Joseph M.; MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick; Taylor, Todd W.

• ISBN13: 9780807126929
• ISBN10: 0807126926
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

"Solidly authoritative and comprehensive, The Companion to Southern Literature spans the genres, languages, ideologies, events, culture, literary history, works, and writers that comprise the literature of the South. From incest to grits, topics are wide-ranging and eclectic. It features alphabetical and topical tables of contents and a thorough index that allows users to find important names that may lack an entry. With more than 500 entries by 200 contributors, the book contains signed essays that are critical and complete with cross-references and a brief bibliography. This companion's affordability and comprehensiveness make it a value and a prized reference work."--"The Best of the Best Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2003.

Table of Contents

Contents Arranged by Subject	xiii
Introduction Beginnings	xix
Contents, Coverage, Contributors	xxi
Finding Your Way with The Companion	xxii
Southern Literature: General Reference Works	xxii
Acknowledgments	xxv
Abolition	1	(2)
Academy, Southern Literature and the	3	(1)
Accent	4	(1)
Advice on Writing Southern Fiction	4	(1)
African American Colleges and Universities	5	(2)
African American Folk Culture	7	(3)
African American Literature, Beginnings to 1919	10	(5)
African American Literature, 1919 to Present	15	(4)
African American Spirituals	19	(2)
African American Vernacular English (AAVE)	21	(1)
Agrarians	22	(2)
Alabama, Literature of	24	(6)
Alabama, University of	30	(1)
Algonquin Books	31	(1)
American Mercury	32	(1)
American Renaissance	33	(1)
Ancestor Worship	33	(2)
Anthologies of Southern Literature	35	(4)
Appalachia	39	(4)
Appalachian Literature	43	(5)
Architecture	48	(6)
Architecture, Domestic (Barns and Cabins)	54	(1)
Aristocracy	55	(1)
Arkansas, Literature of	56	(5)
Arkansas, University of	61	(1)
Art and Artists	62	(11)
Asheville, North Carolina	73	(1)
Atlanta, Georgia	74	(2)
Atlanta Constitution	76	(1)
Audubon, John J.	76	(1)
Autobiographical Impulse	77	(5)
Autobiography	82	(3)
Automobile	85	(2)
Bacon's Rebellion	87	(1)
Baltimore, Maryland	87	(1)
Baltimore Sunpapers	88	(1)
Baptists	89	(3)
Bartram, William	92	(1)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana	93	(1)
Beaches	94	(1)
Belle	95	(2)
Bible	97	(2)
Bible Belt	99	(1)
Biography	100	(3)
Birmingham, Alabama	103	(1)
Birth of a Nation, The	104	(1)
Black Methodists	105	(2)
Black Migrations	107	(1)
Blue-Collar Literature	108	(1)
Bluegrass Music	109	(3)
Blues, The	112	(1)
Boone, Daniel	113	(1)
Border States	114	(2)
Bourbon	116	(1)
British-American Culture	117	(3)
Brown v. Board of Education	120	(2)
Cajun	122	(1)
Cajun Literature	122	(3)
Calvinism	125	(2)
Carpetbagger	127	(1)
Carter, Jimmy	128	(1)
Caste	129	(2)
Cavalier	131	(2)
Caves	133	(2)
Cemeteries and Graveyards	135	(1)
Centers for Southern Studies	136	(1)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina	137	(1)
Charleston, South Carolina	138	(1)
Charlottesville, Virginia	139	(1)
Chattel Slavery	140	(4)
Childhood	144	(1)
Children's Literature	145	(2)
Cities	147	(4)
Civil Rights Movement	151	(4)
Civil War	155	(6)
Civil War Weaponry	161	(1)
Class	162	(1)
Clergy	163	(1)
Clinton, William Jefferson	164	(2)
Clubs	166	(1)
Cockfighting	167	(1)
College Language Association	168	(1)
College Language Association Journal	169	(1)
Colonial Literature	170	(4)
Colonial Newspapers	174	(1)
Community	175	(3)
Confederacy, Literature of the	178	(2)
Confederate Flag	180	(1)
Confederate States of America	181	(1)
Conjuring	182	(2)
Conservatism	184	(3)
Cotton	187	(1)
Country Music	187	(2)
Cracker	189	(1)
Creole	190	(1)
Creole Literature	191	(1)
Crimes and Criminals	192	(2)
Crisis	194	(1)
Crockett, Davy	195	(1)
Davis, Jefferson	196	(1)
De Bow's Review	197	(1)
Debutante	198	(1)
Declaration of Independence	199	(1)
Deep South	200	(3)
Delaware, Literature of	203	(1)
Demagogue	204	(2)
Dialect Literature	206	(1)
Diaries, Civil War	207	(4)
Diaries, Men's	211	(1)
Diaries, Women's	212	(2)
``Dixie''	214	(1)
Domesticity	214	(2)
Domestic Novel	216	(3)
Double Dealer, The	219	(1)
Douglass, Frederick	220	(1)
Drama, Beginnings to 1800	221	(1)
Drama, 1800 to 1900	222	(3)
Drama, 1900 to Present	225	(4)
Duke University	229	(1)
Ellison, Ralph Waldo	230	(1)
Elvis	231	(2)
Episcopalians	233	(2)
Epistolary Fiction	235	(2)
Evangelical Christianity	237	(3)
Expatriation	240	(4)
Faithful Retainer	244	(3)
Family	247	(3)
Family Feuding	250	(1)
Family Reunion	251	(2)
Faulkner, William	253	(1)
Federal Writers' Project	254	(1)
Fellowship of Southern Writers	255	(1)
Feminism	255	(2)
Fiddlers' Conventions	257	(1)
Fight, The	258	(2)
Film	260	(3)
Fishing	263	(1)
Florida, Literature of	264	(4)
Folk Art	268	(1)
Folklife Documentary	269	(2)
Folklore	271	(1)
Folk Music	272	(4)
Folk Narrative	276	(1)
Folk Songs, Religious	277	(2)
Food	279	(2)
Forrest, Nathan Bedford	281	(1)
Foxfire	281	(1)
Frame Narrative	282	(1)
Frank, Leo	283	(1)
Free Southern Theater	284	(1)
Fugitives, The	284	(2)
Fundamentalism	286	(2)
Gardens	288	(1)
Gay Literature	289	(3)
Gentleman	292	(2)
Georgia, Literature of	294	(8)
Georgia, University of	302	(1)
Germans	302	(1)
Getting Happy	303	(1)
Ghost Stories	304	(2)
Gilded Age	306	(1)
Gone With the Wind	307	(2)
Good Old Boy	309	(1)
Gospel Music	310	(1)
Gothicism	311	(5)
Grand Ole Opry	316	(1)
Great Depression	317	(1)
Greenville, Mississippi	318	(1)
Grit Lit	319	(1)
Grits	320	(1)
Grotesque, The	321	(3)
Guilt	324	(1)
Guns	325	(2)
Happy Darky	327	(1)
Harlem Renaissance	328	(2)
Highland Scots	330	(2)
Hillbilly	332	(1)
Hispanic Literature	333	(2)
Historical Romance	335	(5)
Histories of Southern Literature	340	(2)
History, Idea of	342	(4)
Hog, The	346	(1)
Hollins University	346	(1)
Honor	347	(1)
Horses and Horse Racing	348	(1)
Humor, Beginnings to 1900	349	(7)
Humor, 1900 to Present	356	(5)
Hunting	361	(2)
Hurston, Zora Neale	363	(1)
Hymns	364	(3)
I'll Take My Stand	367	(1)
Imagism	368	(1)
Incest	368	(1)
Indians	369	(2)
Industrialization	371	(4)
Intellectual	375	(2)
Internet Resources	377	(1)
Irish Catholics	378	(2)
Jackson, Andrew	380	(1)
Jackson, Mississippi	381	(1)
Jackson, Stonewall	381	(1)
Jazz	382	(3)
Jefferson, Thomas	385	(1)
Jewish Tradition	386	(3)
Jim Crow	389	(1)
Johnson, Lyndon Baines	390	(2)
Judaism	392	(2)
K Mart Fiction	394	(2)
Kentucky, Literature of	396	(7)
Kentucky, University of	403	(1)
Kentucky Tragedy	404	(2)
Kenyon Review	406	(1)
Key West, Florida	407	(1)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.	407	(1)
Korean War	408	(2)
Ku Klux Klan	410	(3)
Lady	413	(2)
Law Before 1900	415	(2)
Law, 1900 to Present	417	(1)
Lawyer	418	(2)
Lazy South	420	(3)
Lee, Robert E.	423	(4)
Lesbian Literature	427	(3)
``Letter from Birmingham Jail''	430	(1)
Letters	430	(4)
Lexington, Kentucky	434	(1)
Liberalism	435	(4)
Library of Southern Literature, The	439	(2)
Lincoln, Abraham	441	(2)
Literary Magazines of the Past	443	(2)
Literary Magazines of the Present	445	(1)
Literary Theory, Contemporary	446	(3)
Local Color	449	(3)
Long, Huey	452	(1)
Lost Cause	453	(1)
Lost Colony, The	454	(1)
Louisiana, Literature of	455	(6)
Louisiana State University	461	(1)
Lynching	462	(2)
Lynch Law	464	(3)
Macon, Georgia	467	(1)
Magic Realism	467	(1)
Mammy	468	(2)
Manuscript Collections	470	(1)
Mardi Gras	471	(1)
Maryland, Literature of	472	(5)
Masking	477	(2)
Mason-Dixon Line	479	(1)
Melodrama	479	(1)
Memphis, Tennessee	480	(2)
Methodists	482	(4)
Mexican War	486	(1)
Military Colleges	487	(1)
Military Tradition	488	(4)
Mind of the South, The	492	(1)
Minimalism	492	(2)
Minstrelsy	494	(2)
Miscegenation	496	(3)
Mississippi, Literature of	499	(5)
Mississippi, University of	504	(1)
Mississippi Delta	505	(2)
Mississippi Quarterly	507	(1)
Mississippi River	508	(1)
Missouri, Literature of	509	(4)
Mobile, Alabama	513	(1)
Modernism	514	(2)
Mulatto	516	(1)
Mule, The	517	(1)
Mystery and Detective Fiction	518	(2)
Mythical Realms	520	(2)
NAACP	522	(1)
Nashville, Tennessee	523	(1)
Natchez Trace	524	(2)
Native American Literature	526	(4)
Naturalism	530	(2)
Nature	532	(3)
Neo-Slave Narrative	535	(1)
New Criticism	536	(2)
New Deal	538	(1)
New Journalism	539	(2)
New Negro	541	(2)
New Orleans, Louisiana	543	(1)
New Orleans Times-Picayune	544	(1)
New South	544	(3)
Newspapers	547	(4)
New Woman	551	(2)
New York Southern Society	553	(1)
``Nigger''	553	(3)
North, The	556	(1)
North Carolina, Literature of	557	(9)
North Carolina, University of	566	(1)
North Carolina State University	567	(1)
Northern Audiences	568	(3)
Novel, Beginnings to 1820	571	(2)
Novel, 1820 to 1865	573	(5)
Novel, 1865 to 1900	578	(4)
Novel, 1900 to World War II	582	(10)
Novel, World War II to Present	592	(6)
Nullification	598	(2)
O'Connor, Flannery	600	(1)
Odes to the Confederate Dead	601	(1)
Oklahoma, Literature of	602	(3)
Old Dominion	605	(1)
Old South	606	(1)
Old Southwest	607	(1)
Oral History	608	(1)
Oratory	609	(2)
Outdoor Drama	611	(3)
Oxford, Mississippi	614	(1)
Ozark Mountains	615	(2)
Passing	617	(2)
Past, The	619	(1)
Pastoral	620	(2)
Patriarchy	622	(2)
Pentecostals	624	(3)
Periodicals, 1800 to 1860	627	(3)
Periodicals, 1860 to 1900	630	(2)
Periodicals, 1900 to 1960	632	(4)
Periodicals, 1960 to Present	636	(2)
Photography	638	(7)
Piedmont	645	(1)
Piracy	646	(2)
Pirate	648	(1)
Plantation	649	(1)
Plantation Fiction	650	(2)
Plessy v. Ferguson	652	(1)
Pocahontas	653	(1)
Poe, Edgar Allan	654	(1)
Poetry, Beginnings to 1820	655	(3)
Poetry, 1820 to 1900	658	(5)
Poetry, 1900 to World War II	663	(2)
Poetry, World War II to Present	665	(4)
Politician	669	(2)
Poor White	671	(2)
Popular Literature	673	(3)
Populism	676	(2)
Porgy and Bess	678	(1)
Postmodernism	678	(2)
Preaching	680	(3)
Presbyterians	683	(1)
Proletarian Novel	684	(4)
Promotional Tract	688	(2)
Protest, Novel of	690	(5)
Publishers	695	(1)
Puritanism	696	(1)
Puritan Writers	697	(3)
Quadroon Balls	700	(1)
Quilting	701	(1)
Quixotism	702	(3)
Race, Idea of	705	(4)
Race Relations	709	(5)
Racism	714	(3)
Ragtime	717	(1)
Railroads	718	(2)
Raleigh, Sir Walter	720	(1)
Reading Public	721	(2)
Realism	723	(2)
Rebel	725	(1)
Rebel Yell	726	(1)
Reconstruction	726	(3)
Redneck	729	(1)
Regionalism	730	(1)
Religion in Nineteenth-Century Literature	731	(2)
Religion in Twentieth-Century Literature	733	(3)
Reviewer	736	(1)
Revolutionary War (American)	736	(2)
Richmond, Virginia	738	(1)
Rivers	738	(2)
Rock and Roll	740	(2)
Roman Catholics	742	(2)
Romance Genre	744	(6)
Romanticism	750	(2)
Rubin, Louis. D., Jr.	752	(1)
Russell's Magazine	752	(2)
``Sahara of the Bozart''	754	(1)
Sambo	755	(1)
Savage Ideal	756	(1)
Savage South	756	(1)
Savannah, Georgia	757	(1)
Scopes Trial	757	(1)
Scots-Irish	758	(2)
Scottsboro Case	760	(1)
Sears Catalog	761	(1)
Sectionalism	762	(1)
Sectional Reconciliation	763	(4)
Secularization	767	(1)
Segregation	768	(1)
Sentimental Novel	769	(3)
Sermons	772	(2)
Sewanee Review	774	(2)
Sex and Sexuality	776	(3)
Shakespeare, William	779	(2)
Sharecropping	781	(2)
Sheriff	783	(1)
Sherman, William Tecumseh	784	(1)
Short Story, Beginnings to 1900	784	(3)
Short Story, 1900 to World War II	787	(3)
Short Story, World War II to Present	790	(6)
Short-Story Cycles	796	(3)
Silver, Frankie	799	(1)
Simpson, Lewis Pearson	800	(1)
Sixties, The	801	(2)
Slave Narrative	803	(4)
Slave Revolts	807	(2)
Smart Set	809	(1)
Smith, Captain John	809	(1)
Snake Handling	810	(1)
Society for the Study of Southern Literature	811	(1)
Sociology of the South	812	(1)
Solid South	813	(1)
Sometime Southerner	814	(1)
South Carolina, Literature of	815	(8)
South Carolina, University of	823	(1)
Southern Cultures	824	(1)
Southern Literary Journal, 1835 to 1838	825	(1)
Southern Literary Journal, 1968 to Present	826	(1)
Southern Literary Messenger	827	(1)
Southern Literature, Idea of	828	(6)
Southern Living	834	(1)
Southern Renascence	835	(5)
Southern Review	840	(2)
South in the Building of the Nation, The	842	(1)
Southwest	843	(1)
Southwestern Humor	844	(6)
Spanish-American War	850	(1)
Speech and Dialect	851	(3)
Sports Literature	854	(3)
Sportsmen	857	(2)
States' Rights	859	(1)
Steel Magnolia	860	(1)
Stoicism	861	(2)
Storytelling	863	(2)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher	865	(2)
Suburbs and Suburban Life	867	(1)
Sunbelt	868	(1)
Sunday School	869	(2)
Talk (Gossip)	871	(1)
Tall Tale	872	(1)
Teacher	873	(3)
Televangelist	876	(2)
Television	878	(1)
Telling About the South	878	(2)
Tenant Farming	880	(2)
Tennessee, Literature of	882	(10)
Tennessee-Knoxville, University of	892	(1)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)	893	(1)
Texas, East, Literature of	894	(5)
Texas Revolution	899	(1)
Textiles	899	(1)
Theft	900	(1)
Tidewater	901	(2)
Till, Emmett	903	(1)
Tobacco	904	(2)
Tobacco Wars	906	(1)
Town and Country	907	(2)
Trail of Tears	909	(1)
Transcendentalism	910	(2)
Travel Literature	912	(1)
Trickster	913	(2)
Turner, Nat	915	(2)
Tuskegee Institute	917	(1)
Twain, Mark	917	(2)
Uncle Remus	919	(1)
Uncle Tom	920	(1)
Underground Railroad	921	(1)
United Daughters of the Confederacy	922	(1)
University of the South (Sewanee)	923	(1)
University Presses	924	(2)
Upland South	926	(3)
Valley of Virginia	929	(1)
Vanderbilt University	930	(1)
Vernacular Voice	931	(1)
Vietnam War	932	(3)
Violence	935	(5)
Virginia, Literature of	940	(6)
Virginia, University of	946	(1)
Virginia Wits	947	(1)
Voodoo	948	(2)
Warren, Robert Penn	950	(2)
Washington, Booker T.	952	(1)
Washington, George	953	(1)
Washington and Lee University	954	(1)
Weddings	955	(1)
Welty, Eudora	956	(1)
West Virginia, Literature of	957	(5)
Whoopin'	962	(1)
William and Mary, College of	963	(1)
Williams, Tennessee	963	(2)
Women's Colleges	965	(1)
Women's Movement	966	(2)
Women's Studies	968	(1)
Women Writers, Beginnings to 1820	969	(3)
Women Writers, 1820 to 1900	972	(7)
Women Writers, 1900 to World War II	979	(8)
Women Writers, World War II to Present	987	(5)
Woodward, C. Vann	992	(1)
Work	993	(2)
World War I	995	(3)
World War II	998	(5)
Wright, Richard	1003	(2)
Y'all	1005	(1)
Yankee	1006	(2)
Yellow-Dog Democrat	1008	(1)
Yeoman	1008	(3)
Yoknapatawpha	1011	(2)
List of Contributors and Their Affiliations (Keyed to Entries in The Companion)	1013	(10)
Index	1023