The History of Southern Women's LiteratureCarolyn Perry, Mary Weaks-Baxter LSU Press, 1 mar 2002 - 689 Many of America’s foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female: Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Lee Smith, to name several. Designating a writer as “southern” if her work reflects the region’s grip on her life, Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks have produced an invaluable guide to the richly diverse and enduring tradition of southern women’s literature. Their comprehensive history—the first of its kind in a relatively young field—extends from the pioneer woman to the career woman, embracing black and white, poor and privileged, urban and Appalachian perspectives and experiences. |
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The Antebellum and Bellum South Beginnings to 1865 | 9 |
Captivity Narratives | 25 |
Eliza Lucas Pinckney | 43 |
Womens Magazines | 59 |
Louisa S McCord | 77 |
Southern Women Writers Responses to Uncle Toms Cabin | 97 |
Mary Chesnut | 119 |
Introduction to Part II | 125 |
Katherine Anne Porter | 359 |
Lillian Smith | 374 |
Eudora Welty | 391 |
Flannery OConnor | 404 |
Introduction to Part IV | 421 |
Southern Women Writers and the Womens Movement | 439 |
Contemporary Writers and Race | 455 |
Southern Women Writers in a Changing Landscape | 478 |
The New Woman of the New South | 133 |
The Postbellum Novel | 141 |
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson | 150 |
Southern History in the Imagination of African American Women | 156 |
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | 164 |
Southern Women Humorists | 176 |
Mary Noailles Murfree | 187 |
Southern Women Poets of the Victorian Age | 193 |
Louisiana Writers of the Postbellum South | 201 |
Kate Chopin | 210 |
Alice DunbarNelson | 225 |
Southern Women Writers and the Beginning of the Renaissance | 242 |
Gone with the Wind and Its Influence | 258 |
Women Writers and the Myths of Southern Womanhood | 275 |
ReVisioning the Southern Land | 290 |
Appalachian Writers | 309 |
The Growing Importance of Literary Circles and Mentors | 329 |
Julia Peterkin | 343 |
A Second Southern Renaissance | 491 |
Margaret Walker | 498 |
Ellen Douglas | 512 |
Shirley Ann Grau | 525 |
Ellen Gilchrist | 541 |
Anne Tyler | 559 |
Rita Mae Brown | 570 |
Josephine Humphreys | 579 |
Beth Henley | 588 |
Jayne Anne Phillips | 594 |
Kaye Gibbons | 604 |
The Future of Southern Womens Writing | 610 |
The Study of Southern Womens Literature | 621 |
Bibliography of General Secondary Sources on Southern Womens | 633 |
Contributors | 641 |
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