Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952

Table of contents

• Defining Southern Literature 1
• Title Page 3
• Contents 7
• Foreword 11
• Acknowledgements 13
• Introduction 15
• Defining Southern Literature 41
• Part One - 1830–1860 43
• 1 - Hugh Swinton Legaré: [American Literature] (1831) 45
• 2 - James E. Heath: [Southern Literature] (1834) 49
• 3 - Lewis Gaylord Clark: [Guy Rivers] (1834) 53
• 4 - Edgar Allan Poe: [Georgia Scenes] (1836) 57
• 5 - William Gilmore Simms: [Southern Literature] (1841) 60
• 6 - [The Newspaper and Periodical Press] (1842) 67
• 7 - Margaret Fuller: [The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave] (1845) 73
• 8 - Edgar Allan Poe: [Wigwam and Cabin] (1846) 75
• 9 - C. C. Felton: [Simms's Stories and Reviews] (1846) 78
• 10 - [Review of Frederick Douglass's Life and Bondage] (1855) 85
• 11 - [Southern Literature] (1857) 87
• 12 - William Gilmore Simms: [Literary Prospects of the South] (1858) 92
• 13 - Henry Timrod: [Literature in the South] (1859) 108
• Part Two - 1860–1900 121
• 14 - Ed. S. Gregory: [The Voice of the South] (1871) 123
• 15 - Paul Hamilton Hayne: [Literature at the South] (1874) 127
• 16 - H. H. Boyesen: [Cable's 'Grandissimes'] (1880) 131
• 17 - [Southern Literature] (1881) 135
• 18 - George W. Cable: Address to the University of Mississippi, [Literature in the Southern States] 1882) 138
• 19 - George P. Lathrop: [An American Story Writer] (1884) 149
• 20 - Charles W. Coleman: [The Recent Movement in Southern Literature] (1887) 153
• 21 - [Literature in the South] (1887) 157
• 22 - Review of in Ole Virginia (1887) 165
• 23 - Albion W. Tourgee: [The South as a Field for Fiction] (1888) 167
• 24 - [Recent Southern Fiction] (1890) 176
• 25 - Thomas Nelson Page: [Literature in the South since the War] (1891) 178
• 26 - William M. Baskervill: [Southern Literature] (1892) 180
• 27 - William Dean Howells: [Editor's Easy Chair] (1892) 190
• 28 - C. Alphonso Smith: [The Possibilities of the South in Literature] (1898) 192
• 29 - William Dean Howells: [The Southern States in Recent American Literature] (1898) 199
• 30 - Sibert [Willa Cather]: [Books and Magazines] (1899) 210
• Part Three - 1900–1952 213
• 31 - Henry N. Snyder: [The Reconstruction of Southern Literary Thought] (1902) 215
• 32 - John Spencer Bassett: [The Problem of the Author in the South] (1902) 224
• 33 - John Bell Henneman: [The National Element in Southern Literature] (1903) 231
• 34 - Mrs. L. H. Harris: [Fiction, North and South] (1903) 243
• 35 - George Edward Woodberry: [The South in American Letters] (1903) 248
• 36 - John Raper Ormond: [Some Recent Products of the New School of Southern Fiction] (1904) 258
• 37 - Kelly Miller: [As to the Leopard's Spots: An Open Letter to Thomas Dixon, Jr.] (1905) 262
• 38 - [Southern Writers Take Their Pen in Hand] (1905) 267
• 39 - Edwin Anderson Alderman: Introduction to the Library of Southern Literature (1907) 270
• 40 - Montrose J. Moses: Introduction to the Literature of the South (1910) 274
• 41 - Moncure Conway: [Art for Art's Sake in Southern Literature] (1916) 278
• 42 - H. L. Mencken: [The Sahara of the Bozart] (1917) 284
• 43 - Herschel Brickell: [The Literary Awakening in the South] (1927) 289
• 44 - Ellen Glasgow: [The Novel in the South] (1928) 295
• 45 - Howard Mumford Jones: [Is There a Southern Renaissance?] (1930) 306
• 46 - Donald Davidson: [The Southern Poet and His Tradition] (1932) 316
• 47 - Allen Tate: [The Profession of Letters in the South] (1935) 322
• 48 - John Crowe Ransom: [Modern with the Southern Accent] (1935) 333
• 49 - Gerald W. Johnson: [The Horrible South] (1935) 345
• 50 - Ellen Glasgow: [Heroes and Monsters] (1935) 357
• 51 - Hamilton Basso: [Letters in the South] (1935) 361
• 52 - Harold Preece: [Some Aspects of Southern Culture] (1936) 367
• 53 - Edd Winfield Parks: Introduction to Southern Poets (1936) 373
• 54 - V. F. Calverton: [The Bankruptcy of Southern Culture] (1936) 378
• 55 - Paula Snelling: [Southern Fiction and Chronic Suicide] (1938) 389
• 56 - Benjamin T. Spencer: [Wherefore This Southern Fiction?] (1939) 398
• 57 - H. Arlin Turner: [The Southern Novel] (1940) 409
• 58 - W. J. Cash: [Literature and the South] (1940) 414
• 59 - Cleanth Brooks: [What Deep South Literature Needs] (1942) 423
• 60 - Hugh Gloster: [The Negro Writer and the Southern Scene] (1948) 430
• 61 - Robert Heilman: [The Southern Temper] (1952) 434
• Index 444

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