The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 9: Literature
M. Thomas Inge
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/2014
Pages: 536
Subject: Reference, Literary Criticism, History
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469616643
DESCRIPTION
Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.