| Description |
xvii, 689 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Southern literary studies
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Southern literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-640) and index. |
| Contents |
I. The antebellum and bellum south (beginnings to 1865). Introdution to part I -- Antebellum journals and collections of letters -- Captivity narratives -- Gender issues in the old South -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney -- The novel -- Women's magazines -- Caroline Howard Gilman -- The Grimké sisters -- Louisa S. McCord -- Caroline Lee Hentz -- Early African American women writers -- Southern women writers' response to Uncle Tom's cabin -- Harriet Ann Jacobs -- Civil War diaries and memoirs -- Mary Chesnut -- II. The postbellum South (1865-1900). Introduction to part II -- The new woman of the. |
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new South -- The postbellum novel -- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson -- Southern history in the imagination of African American women writers -- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper -- Southern women journalists -- Southern women humorists -- Mary Noailles Murfree -- Southern women poets of the Victorian Age -- Louisiana writers of the postbellum South -- Kate Chopin -- Grace King -- Anna Julia Cooper -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson -- III. Renaissance in the South (1900-1960). Introduction to part III -- Southern women writers and the beginning of the Renaissance -- The modern novel -- Gone with the Wind and its influence -- |
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Southern women's autobiography -- Women writers and the myths of southern womanhood -- Re-visioning the southern land -- Women writers of the Harlem Renaissance -- Appalachian writers -- Southern women writers and social issues -- The growing importance of literary circles and mentors -- Ellen Glasgow -- Julia Peterkin -- Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- Frances Newman -- Katherine Anne Porter -- Evelyn Scott -- Caroline Gordon -- Lillian Smith -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Lillian Hellman -- Eudora Welty -- Carson McCullers -- Flannery O'Connor -- Harper Lee -- IV. The contemporary South (1960 to the. |
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present). Introduction to part IV -- Myths of southern womanhood in contemporary literature -- Southern women writers and the women's movement -- Contemporary autobiography and memoir -- Contemporary writers and race -- Contemporary poetry -- Southern women writers in a changing landscape -- A second southern renaissance -- Margaret Walker -- Mary Lee Settle -- Elizabeth Spencer -- Ellen Douglas -- Maya Angelou -- Shirley Ann Grau -- Doris Betts -- Sonia Sanchez -- Ellen Gilchrist -- Gail Godwin -- Bobbie Ann Mason -- Anne Tyler -- Alice Walker -- Rita Mae Brown -- Lee Smith -- Josephine. |
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Humphreys -- Dorothy Allison -- Beth Henley -- Jayne Anne Phillips -- Jill McCorkle -- Kaye Gibbons -- Afterward: The future of southern women's writing -- Appendix: The study of southern women's literature. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Southern States. |
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Women authors. |
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts. |
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Women -- Southern States -- Intellectual life.
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Women. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Women and literature -- Southern States.
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Women and literature. |
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Southern States -- Intellectual life.
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Southern States -- In literature.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Perry, Carolyn.
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Weaks-Baxter, Mary.
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| ISBN |
0807127531 alkaline paper |
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