Southern Aberrations

by Gray, Richard J.

• ISBN13: 9780807125526
• ISBN10: 0807125520
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Author Biography

Richard Gray is professor of literature at the University of Essex.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
``I am a Virginian''
Edgar Allan Poe and the South	1	(35)
``To escape from the provincial''
Ellen Glasgow, the Matter of Virginia, and the Story of the South	36	(60)
``The most powerful propaganda''
Stark Young, Andrew Nelson Lytle, the Agrarians, and the Making of the Southern Literary Canon	96	(59)
``These are the unknown people''
Stories of the Rural Poor of the South Between the Two World Wars and Beyond	155	(75)
``Our contemporary ancestors''
Versions of the Mountain Folk (and Some River Folk) Between the Two World Wars and Beyond	230	(112)
``The world is here''
Fiction Writing and Social Change in the Contemporary South I	342	(74)
``The world is here''
Fiction Writing and Social Change in the Contemporary South II	416	(81)
``Porch Talk'' and Making a Difference
A Concluding Note on Southern Regionalism	497	(16)
Index	513