The South in Perspective: An Anthology of Southern Literature

by Francisco, Edward; Vaughan, Robert; Francisco, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780130114907
• ISBN10: 0130114901
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Divided into six chronological periods representing Southern literature from both the upper and lower south, and including a section on the literature of Appalachia, this text includes works not previously anthologized in such a collection. Selections such as the Scopes' Trial Transcripts, John Wilkes' and Asia Booth's correspondence, and early Southern drama give students a unique and often overlooked understanding of Southern literature.

Table of Contents

Genre Table of Contents	xv
Preface	xxv
I The Colonial Period (1585-1815)	1	(130)
Upper South	8	(104)
Richard Beale Davis	12	(17)
from Intellectual Life in the Colonial South	12	(17)
Robert Beverley	29	(13)
from The History and Present State of Virginia	29	(13)
Ebenezer Cook	42	(15)
The Sot Weed Factor, or A Voyage to Maryland	42	(15)
William Byrd II	57	(7)
from Secret History of the Line	58	(2)
History of the Dividing Line	60	(4)
Samuel Davies	64	(3)
``How Great, How Terrible That God''	65	(1)
``Welcome to Earth, Great Son of God''	66	(1)
Robert Munford	67	(21)
The Candidates; or, The Humours of a Virginia Election	67	(21)
Thomas Jefferson	88	(12)
from The Autobiography: Notes on the State of Virginia	89	(11)
William Wirt	100	(5)
from The Old Bachelor, Essay Number XIX	100	(5)
Mason Locke Weems	105	(7)
from The Life of Washington with Curious Anecdotes	106	(6)
Lower South	112	(19)
Patrick Tailfer	113	(3)
from A True and Historical Narrative of the Colony of Georgia	113	(3)
Joseph Dumbleton	116	(1)
``A Rhapsody on Rum''	116	(1)
Eliza Lucas Pinckney	117	(14)
from The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney	117	(14)
II The Rise of the Confederacy and the Civil War (1815-1865)	131	(223)
Upper South	142	(112)
St. George Tucker
``For the Washington Federalist: A New Federal Song''	145	(2)
``The Tobacco Pipe''	147	(1)
``The Faithful Mastiff: A True Story''	148	(1)
``The Author's Muse to the Reader: A Monitory Tale''	149	(1)
``The Cynic''	149	(1)
David Crockett	150	(7)
from A Narrative of the Life of David Crocket: ``Hunting in Tennessee''	151	(6)
William Alexander Caruthers	157	(6)
from The Kentuckian in New York: or the Adventures of Three Southerns	158	(5)
Edgar Allan Poe	163	(22)
from ``The Philosophy of Composition''	164	(7)
``Sonnet-To Science''	171	(1)
``Sonnet-Silence''	172	(1)
``Dream-Land''	172	(1)
``William Wilson''	173	(12)
Harriet Jacobs	185	(13)
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl	186	(1)
``The Church and Slavery''	186	(5)
``Continued Persecutions''	191	(4)
``The Children Sold''	195	(3)
George Fitzhugh	198	(12)
from Ante-bellum Writings of George Fitzhugh and Hinton Rowan Helper on Slavery: Cannibals All! Or, Slaves without Masters: The Universal Trade	198	(12)
Henry Kyd Douglas	210	(10)
from I Rode with Stonewall: Being Chiefly the War Experiences of the Youngest Member of Jackson's Staff from the John Brown Raid to the Hanging of Mrs. Surratt: ``Wounded and in Prison''	210	(10)
Edward Pollard	220	(5)
from Southern History of the War	221	(4)
Robert E. Lee	225	(8)
from Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, CSA	226	(7)
Asia Booth Clarke	233	(8)
from John Wilkes Booth: A Sister's Memoir	233	(8)
Elizabeth Keckley	241	(13)
from Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House	241	(13)
Lower South	254	(100)
Caroline Howard Gilman	257	(5)
from Recollections of a Southern Matron: ``Old Jacque''	258	(4)
William Gilmore Simms	262	(6)
``Confessions of a Murderer''	263	(5)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet	268	(7)
from Georgia Scenes: ``The Fight''	268	(7)
Angelina Emily Grimke	275	(16)
from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South	275	(16)
John C. Calhoun	291	(6)
from A Disquisition on Government	292	(5)
Joseph Glover Baldwin	297	(2)
from The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi: A Series of Sketches: ``Squire A. and the Fritters''	297	(2)
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson	299	(9)
from Macaria; or, Altars of Sacrifice	300	(8)
Jefferson Davis	308	(2)
from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, ``Introduction''	309	(1)
Henry Timrod	310	(11)
``Charleston''	310	(1)
``Literature and the South''	311	(10)
Kate Cumming	321	(27)
from A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee: Okolona-Corinth	324	(24)
Mary Boykin Chesnut	348	(6)
from the Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries	349	(5)
III Reconstruction and the Rise of the New South (1865-1925)	354	(199)
Upper South	363	(117)
Frederick Douglass	370	(4)
from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave	371	(3)
Nathan Bedford Forrest	374	(1)
``Speech to the African-American Community of Memphis,'' 1875	374	(1)
George Washington Harris	375	(5)
from Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a ``Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool; Warped and Wove for Public Wear''; ``Parson John Bullen's Lizards''	376	(4)
Thomas Nelson Page	380	(15)
``Unc' Edinburg's Drowndin'': A Plantation Echo	381	(14)
Samuel Langhorn Clemens	395	(12)
from Life on the Mississippi: ``Castles and Culture''	396	(3)
``City Sights''	399	(3)
``Southern Sports''	402	(5)
Amelie Rives	407	(6)
from The Quick or the Dead?	407	(6)
Mary Noailles Murfree	413	(14)
``The `Harnt' that Walks Chilhowee''	413	(14)
Anna Julia Cooper	427	(4)
from A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South	427	(4)
William P. Trent	431	(15)
from William Gilmore Simms; from ``The War''	432	(14)
James Lane Allen	446	(4)
from The Reign of Law: A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields	446	(4)
Will N. Harben	450	(8)
``The Heresy of Abner Calihan''	450	(8)
John Spencer Bassett	458	(6)
``Stirring Up the Fires of Race Antipathy,''	459	(5)
William Sydney Porter	464	(11)
A Municipal Report	465	(10)
Walter Hines Page	475	(5)
from The Southerner; ``The Flower of the South''	475	(5)
Lower South	480	(73)
African American Folk Tales
``When Brer Deer and Brer Terrapin Runned a Race''	484	(1)
``Why Mr. Dog Runs Brer Rabbit''	485	(1)
``How Sandy Got His Meat''	486	(2)
Joel Chandler Harris (Tales told by Harbert and George Terrell)	488	(9)
``The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story''	489	(1)
``How Mr. Rabbit Saved His Meat''	490	(1)
``Mr. Terrapin Shows His Strength''	491	(2)
``Brother Rabbit and the Mosquitos''	493	(4)
Sidney Lanier	497	(12)
``The Symphony''	497	(8)
``Song of the Chattahoochee''	505	(1)
``The Marshes of Glynn''	506	(3)
George Washington Cable	509	(19)
``Jean-ah Poquelin''	509	(13)
from The Negro Question, ``The Answer''	522	(6)
Henry W. Grady	528	(6)
``The New South''	528	(6)
Kate Chopin	534	(4)
``Desiree's Baby''	535	(3)
Booker T. Washington	538	(5)
from Up from Slavery, ``The Atlanta Exposition Address''	538	(5)
Grace Elizabeth King	543	(4)
``La Grande Demoiselle''	543	(4)
Corra Harris	547	(6)
from The Recording Angel	547	(6)
IV Renaissance (1925-1960)	553	(301)
Upper South	562	(155)
Tennessee Evolution Statutes	570	(10)
State of Tennessee vs. John Scopes: from the Scopes Trial Transcripts	572	(8)
H. L. Mencken	580	(7)
``The Sahara of the Bozart''	580	(7)
John Crowe Ransom	587	(4)
``Necrological''	587	(1)
``Antique Harvesters''	588	(1)
``The Equilibrists''	589	(2)
``Janet Waking''	591	(1)
Donald Davidson	591	(6)
``Lee in the Mountains''	592	(3)
``The Last Charge''	595	(2)
Allen Tate	597	(6)
``Ode to the Confederate Dead''	597	(2)
``Aeneas at Washington''	599	(1)
``The Swimmers''	600	(3)
Paul Green	603	(18)
Hymn to the Rising Sun: A Drama of Man's Waste in One Act	603	(18)
Ellen Glasgow	621	(6)
from The Battle-Ground, ``The Ragged Army''	622	(5)
Olive Tilford Dargan	627	(17)
from Call Home the Heart, ``Her Family''	627	(17)
Caroline Gordon	644	(13)
``Old Red''	645	(12)
Cleanth Brooks	657	(12)
``The Hidden God''	657	(12)
Katherine Anne Porter	669	(4)
``Rope''	669	(4)
Sterling Brown	673	(3)
``Slim in Atlanta''	674	(1)
``Southern Cop''	675	(1)
W. J. Cash	676	(16)
from The Mind of the South, ``The Man at the Center''	676	(16)
Robert Penn Warren	692	(16)
``Blackberry Winter''	693	(14)
``Founding Fathers, Early Nineteenth Century, Style, Southeast U.S.A.''	707	(1)
Andrew Lytle	708	(9)
``Jericho, Jericho, Jericho''	709	(8)
Lower South	717	(137)
Jean Toomer	726	(2)
from Cane, ``Prayer''	726	(1)
``Harvest Song''	726	(1)
``Portrait in Georgia''	727	(1)
``Cotton Song''	727	(1)
James Weldon Johnson	728	(6)
``Preface'' from God's Trombones	728	(5)
``Listen, Lord''	733	(1)
Julia Peterkin	734	(7)
``Ashes''	735	(6)
Margaret Mitchell	741	(13)
from Gone with the Wind	742	(12)
William Faulkner	754	(14)
from Absalom! Absalom!	755	(1)
``Pantaloon in Black''	756	(12)
Stark Young	768	(14)
essay from I'll Take My Stand, ``Not in Memoriam, But in Defense''	768	(14)
Zora Neale Hurston	782	(13)
from Their Eyes Were Watching God	782	(13)
Carson McCullers	795	(5)
``A Tree A Rock A Cloud''	795	(5)
William Alexander Percy	800	(7)
from Lanterns on the Levee, ``Sewanee''	801	(6)
Eudora Welty	807	(9)
``A Worn Path''	807	(5)
``A Piece of News''	812	(4)
Tennessee Williams	816	(10)
Portrait of a Madonna	816	(10)
Richard Wright	826	(11)
from Black Boy	826	(11)
Truman Capote	837	(7)
``A Diamond Guitar''	837	(7)
Lillian Smith	844	(10)
from Killers of the Dream, ``The Women''	844	(10)
V Tradition and Identity Reevaluated (1960-1980)	854	(203)
Upper South	862	(64)
Malcolm X (interview with Robert Penn Warren) in Who Speaks for the Negro?	867	(12)
``Interview with Malcolm X''	868	(10)
``Note on the Assassination of Malcolm X''	878	(1)
Louis D. Rubin, Jr.	879	(11)
Introductions to 1962 and 1977 editions of I'll Take My Stand, Torchbook Edition	879	(6)
Library of Southern Civilization Edition	885	(5)
Peter Taylor
``Cousin Aubrey''	890	(12)
Ishmael Reed
``Chattanooga''	902	(3)
John Egerton	905	(21)
from The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America, ``Culture: Reexploring the Sahara of the Bozart''	906	(20)
Lower South	926	(131)
Thomas Merton	933	(2)
``Flannery O'Connor: a Prose Elegy''	933	(2)
Flannery O'Connor	935	(21)
``The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South''	936	(6)
``Revelation''	942	(14)
Shirley Ann Grau	956	(15)
``The Black Prince''	956	(15)
Harper Lee	971	(18)
from To Kill a Mockingbird	971	(18)
Martin Luther King, Jr.	989	(7)
``I've Been to the Moutaintop''	990	(6)
Walker Percy	996	(21)
from The Last Gentleman	996	(21)
Shelby Foote	1017	(8)
``Rain Down Home''	1017	(8)
John Kennedy Toole	1025	(17)
from A Confederacy of Dunces	1026	(1)
``Foreword'' (Walker Percy)	1026	(16)
Margaret Walker	1042	(11)
from Jubilee	1042	(11)
James Dickey
``The Bee''	1053	(2)
``The Strength of Fields''	1055	(2)
VI Appalachia Recognized	1057	(104)
Cherokee Myths and Legends	1069	(8)
``How the World Was Made'' (Cherokee)	1069	(1)
``Kana'ti and Selu: The Origin of Game and Corn'' (Cherokee)	1070	(5)
``How the Terrapin Beat the Rabbit'' (Cherokee)	1075	(1)
``The Rabbit and the Tar Wolf'' (Cherokee)	1076	(1)
Rebecca Harding Davis	1077	(3)
``The Black North''	1077	(3)
Elizabeth Madox Roberts	1080	(7)
``On the Mountainside''	1080	(7)
Anne Bethel Spencer	1087	(2)
``Substitution''	1088	(1)
``For Jim, Easter Eve''	1088	(1)
Thomas Clayton Wolfe	1089	(15)
from Of Time and the River	1089	(15)
Jesse Stuart	1104	(8)
``Kentucky Is My Land''	1104	(5)
``Her Work Is Done''	1109	(1)
``Prayer for My Father''	1110	(1)
``Stand Out and Count''	1110	(1)
``Modernity''	1111	(1)
``Summer Has Faded''	1111	(1)
James Agee	1112	(8)
``Knoxville, Summer 1915'' from A Death in the Family	1112	(8)
George Scarbrough	1120	(3)
``The Winter Mole''	1121	(1)
``Death Is a Short Word''	1122	(1)
``Blackberry Winter''	1122	(1)
Gurney Norman	1123	(4)
from Kinfolks, ``The Revival''	1123	(4)
Harriet Simpson Arnow	1127	(7)
from The Dollmaker	1127	(7)
James Still	1134	(2)
``Farm''	1135	(1)
``Pattern for Death''	1135	(1)
``When the Dulcimers Are Gone''	1135	(1)
Jim Wayne Miller	1136	(6)
from Newfound	1136	(6)
Lee Smith	1142	(8)
from Saving Grace	1142	(8)
Wendell Berry	1150	(7)
``Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer''	1151	(4)
from Sabbaths: Poems, 1979-I	1155	(1)
1979-VIII	1156	(1)
1984-III	1156	(1)
1984-IV	1157	(1)
Fred Chappell	1157	(4)
``Third base Coach''	1158	(1)
``Fast Ball''	1158	(1)
``Spitballer''	1158	(1)
``Junk Ball''	1159	(1)
``Strike Zone''	1159	(1)
``Song of the Seven''	1160	(1)
VII The Postmodern South (1980--Present)	1161	(216)
Upper South	1170	(111)
Lisa Alther	1177	(3)
from Kinflicks, ``The Art of Dying Well''	1177	(3)
Maya Angelou	1180	(1)
``On the Pulse of Morning''	1180	(1)
A. R. Ammons	1181	(2)
``Classic''	1181	(1)
``Periphery''	1182	(1)
``Clarity''	1183	(1)
Richard Marius	1183	(4)
from After the War	1184	(3)
Cormac McCarthy	1187	(18)
from Suttree	1187	(18)
Reynolds Price	1205	(7)
from Tongues of Angels	1206	(6)
Doris Betts	1212	(13)
``Daughters, Southerners, and Daisy''	1212	(13)
William Styron	1225	(16)
from Tidewater Morning, ``Shadrach''	1226	(15)
John Shelton Reed	1241	(19)
from My Tears Spoiled My Aim, ``The South: What Is It? Where Is It?''	1241	(19)
Bobbie Ann Mason	1260	(8)
``Still Life with Watermelon''	1260	(8)
Will Campbell	1268	(13)
from The Glad River	1269	(12)
Lower South	1281	(96)
Dorothy Allison	1286	(8)
from Bastard Out of Carolina	1286	(8)
Larry Brown	1294	(4)
from Facing the Music	1294	(4)
Pat Conroy	1298	(10)
from The Prince of Tides	1298	(10)
Harry Crews	1308	(10)
from A Childhood: The Biography of a Place	1308	(10)
Barry Hannah	1318	(4)
``Knowing He Was Not My Kind, Yet I Followed''	1318	(4)
Willie Morris	1322	(12)
from The Courting of Marcus Dupree	1322	(12)
Elizabeth Spencer	1334	(13)
``First Dark''	1335	(12)
Alice Walker	1347	(3)
``Women''	1347	(1)
``Eagle Rock''	1348	(1)
``J, My Good Friend (Another Foolish Innocent)''	1349	(1)
Ernest J. Gaines	1350	(19)
``The Sky Is Gray''	1350	(19)
Ann Rivers Siddons	1369	(8)
from Hill Towns	1369	(8)
Acknowledgments	1377	(6)
Index	1383