Nineteenth-century Southern literature /
Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a ""region"" or of themselves as ""southerners."" In time, the need to defend the entire southern way of life became obsessive for many writers, too often precluding efforts at originality in form or style....
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| Online pristup: | Electronic book from EBSCO Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | e-knjiga |
| Jezik: | English |
| Izdano: | Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1980. |
| Serija: | New perspectives on the South.
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| Sažetak: | Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a ""region"" or of themselves as ""southerners."" In time, the need to defend the entire southern way of life became obsessive for many writers, too often precluding efforts at originality in form or style. Especially after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, southern identity and southern nationalism emerged as the grand themes, and literature became subservient to regional interests. The devastation of the Civil War and the collapse of the Confederacy, instead of pointing southern writers in new directions, only intensified their preoccupation with a now-dead past |
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| Opis: | 1 online resource (x, 128 pages) |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografija: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813164335 0813164338 |
| Pristup: | Access limited to authorized users. |