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
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Tying together legal, historical, social, political and literary strands to show how the law itself was implicated in the persistence of slavery, this work shed
In this major reconsideration of a regional consciousness, Richard Gray explores how generations of southerners have been engaged in "writing the South", in rei
This work tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in US literature from the founding to the turn of the 20th century, through genres including travel writing, got