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Author Thorp, Willard, 1899-1990.

Title A southern reader.

Publication Info. New York : Knopf, 1955.

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 Moore Stacks  F209 .T48    Available  ---
Edition [1st ed.].
Description xxi, 760, vi pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents 1. Prologue -- The south and tradition / John Peale Bishop -- Of an ideal and conflict / W. J. Cash -- 2. Land -- Bryant tours the south / William Cullen Bryant -- An Englishman settles in Virginia in the 1870' / A. g. Bradley -- The delta / William Alexander Percy -- Arkansas: a look round the land / John Gould Fletcher -- 3. Rivers -- Robert Beverley notes how the first Virginians used their rivers / Robert Beverley -- The flatboat war at Vicksburg / H. s. Fulkerson -- An English scientist travels by steamboat on the Alabama river / Sir Charles Lyell -- Sam Clemens completes his education on the Mississippi / Samuel L. Clemens -- Why the Tennessee / R. L. Duffus -- 4. Southerners at home -- The inhabitants of lubberland / William Byrd -- A plantation tutor ast nomini hall / Philip Vickers Fithian -- The creoles of New Orleans from Gumbo Ya-Ya, a collection of Louisian Folk Tales -- A southern lady undures the shock of war / Judith Brockenbrough MaGuire -- The pinch of necessity / Dr. Paul B. Barringer -- "They go about in their balck masks" / Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Correspondent reid inspects the deffeted south / Whitelaw Reis -- "We begin now to realize the ruin to property which the war has entailed upon us." / Henry William Ravenel -- Three tenant family / Agee and Evans -- Georgians at home from Georgia, a guide to its towns and countryside -- 5. Working the land -- Jefferson on "those who labor in the earth" / Thomans Jefferson -- Blue Smoke / Sherwood Anderson -- Eight-cent cotton and forty-cent meat / Ben Robertson -- Olmsted visiteds a Lousiana sugar plantation in 1853 / Frederick Law Olmsted -- John Taylor of Caroline and his arator / John Taylor -- Duties of the planation overseer / John Spencer Bassett -- Sir Charles Lyell watches the negroes working at hopeton planation / Sir Charles Lyell -- 6. Education -- An old field school in Virginia / John Davis -- Longstreet on waddel's acadmy / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- college life in the old south / E. Merton Coulter -- The fundamentalists and the schools / Virhinus Dabney -- Supreme court decision outlawing segeration in the public schools -- 7. Sports and pastimes -- Taking the spring tours in Virginia / Perceval Reniers -- Historian ramsay on deer-hunting on South Carolina / David Ramsay -- Grander-pulling / Thomas Henderson -- The Hon. William Elliott joins Judege P. and Doctor E. in a wildcathunt / William Eillott -- Hail rex! / Lyle Saxon --
8. Image in the mirror -- pt. 1. Aristocracy -- The southern Gentleman as he saw himself / Daniel R. Hundley -- John randolph indtructs his young cousin in the behavior required of a Virginia aristricrat / John Randolph -- A southern gentleman recalls his training in the aristocratic code / William C. Preston -- pt. 2. Chivalry -- "The role which woman should act in the great drama of life." / Thomas R. Dew -- A tournament in honor of the nuptials of miss, of morven / James B. Avirett -- The grandeur that was not / Howard W. Odum -- Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickson at twenty-four paces / Marquis James -- Virility and chivalry / John W. De Forest -- Editor Daniel rebukes the southern generals for fighting a chivalric war / John M. Daniel -- pt. 3. Kin -- Kin and the love of country / George Fithzhugh -- Kin and politics in colonial Virginia / Charles S. Sydnor -- Reunion of the kinfolks / Ben Robertson -- pt. 4. Hospitality -- One day of southern hospitality / Henry Barnard -- A "Frolic' at highland / Bennet H. Barrow -- Dr. Bagby on the hospitality of Jeems Jimmison / George W. Bagby -- A sour note on southern hospitality / Frederick Law Olmsted -- 9. Military glory -- "Will you not be forced to submit?"-- "Never" / William Howard Russell -- "I hear the ringing laugh of stuart--the prince of cavaliers!" / John Esten Coole -- Pickett's charge at gettysburg / James Longstreet -- "Will you falter now?" a broafside printed for the men of Hood's division -- "There was not a man in the confederacy whose influence...was as great as his" / U. S. Grant -- 10. Negro -- pt. 1. Negro speaks -- a slave witness of a slaves asction / Solomon Northup -- Frederick Douglass learns to read / Frederick Douglass -- Two slave narratives / B.A. Botkin -- William Johnson, free negro of Natchez / William Johnson -- Booker t. Washington's atlanta exposition address Booker T. Washinton -- Of the training of black men / W. E. B. Du Bois -- "Poor Wayfarin' stranger" J. Saunders Redding -- Into a strange new land / Carl Thomas Rowan -- Remembering nat turner / Sterling A. Brown -- pt. 2. White man speaks -- Thomas Jefferson in the negro and the slavery question / Thomas Jefferson -- Geroge Fitzhugh on the "free slave trade" of the north / Rowan Helper -- Christmas night in the quarters / Irwin Russell -- Cable's "freed--not free" / Geroge Washington Cable -- "We would hunt him down and kill him" / Benjamin Tillman -- The case of eddie mack / Hodding Carter -- 11. Violence -- An Arkansas fight from The Spirit of the Times -- "We now shot them like dogs" from a narrative of the life of David Crockett, of the state of Tennesse -- Memorial of a committee appointed at a meeting of colored citizen, of Frankfort, KY., and vicinity, praying the enactment of laws for the better protection of life. -- Three 1930 lynchings / Arthur Raper -- "Ride on stranger" / John Fox, Jr -- Fighting the ku klux klan in the 1920"s / Virginius Dabney -- 12. Politics -- Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address / Thomas Jefferson -- Henry Clay appearls to the south to support his "American system" / Herney Clay -- Andrew Jackson vetoes the bill for rechartering the bank og the United States / Andrew Jackson -- Calhoun on nullification and the concurrent Majority / John C. Calhown -- Davy Crockett tells how to win an election from the The Life of David Crockett -- Robert Toombs of Gerogia speak his farewell to the senate on the eve of the the war of rebellion / Robert Toombs -- Journilist Pike observe the "black parliament" in South Carolina in the spring of 1873 / James Shepherd Pike -- Grady's "the new south" / Henry W. Grady -- Huey Long takes up his mortage on Lousiana Harnett T. Kane -- 13. Religion -- Thomas Jefferson's "bill for estabilishing religious freedom" / Thomas Jefferson -- The war of the churches in Virginia / John Esten Cooke -- Bishop Asbury rides the methodist circuits in the south Francis Asbury -- The "great revival in the west" or the "second awakening" / James Ross -- A swedish lady novelist inspects a camp meeting / Fredrika Bremer -- The "freat iron wheel" controversy / J. R. Graves and W.G. Brownlow -- The scriptural defense of slavery / T. Stringfellow -- Tonguesand snakes / Archie Robertson -- Faith of our fathers / Hodding Carter --
14. Cities and towns -- "These cities differ radically among themselves" / Edd Winfield Parks -- Mobile in 1844 / Henry Benjamin Whipple -- Edward king takes time off to enjoy the beauty of Charleston / Edward Kind -- New Orleans: decatur street / John Peals Bishop -- Birmingham / Harold H. Martin -- Coutry court day in Kentucky / James Lane Allen -- Annals of possum trot / Herman C. Nixon -- 15. Business and industry -- De bow on the southern industrial revolution / James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow -- William Gregg: factory master of the old south / Broadus Mitchell -- "I'd take the mill anytime" / Muriel Wolff -- Geyser of oil / J. A.Clark and M. T. Halbouty -- Chemical treasure trove / William Haynes -- 16. Arts --
pt. 1. Building -- pt. 2. Cooking -- Mr. Rutledge's oyster roast / Richard Barry -- Juleps before breakfast / W. H. Russell -- Edibles and potables / Willard Thorp -- pt. 3. Music-making -- A "sacred harp" convention / George Pullen Jackson -- Jazz from Storyville, New Orleans / Barry Ulanov -- pt. 4. Song and story -- Folk songs: Barbey Ellen ; Old Smoky; The Hunters of Kentucky; Turnip Greens -- Confederate songs: The Bonnie blue flag; Goober peas -- Negro Spirituals and songs: Steal away to Jesus; Go Down, Moses; Joshua Fit De Battle ob Jerico; John Henry; "I Had a Good Woman" -- Tall tales and short: The Bell "Witch"; Colonel Crocket Shoots for His Supper; Lawyer Prentiss and the Bedbug trial -- pt. 5. Writing -- To Helen; Israfel; Ulalume-A Ballad; The Masque of the Red Death / Edgar Allan Poe -- Rare Ripe Garde-seed / George W. Harris -- A soldier-poet in a northern prison / -- Sidney Lanier -- Mr.Rabbit Nibbles Up the Butter / Joel Chandler Harris -- 'Sieur Grorge / George Washington Cable -- On the mountain side / Elizabeth Madox Roberts -- From "The face of the War" / Thomas Wolfe; Dead Boy; Judith of Bethulia; Two in August / John Crowe Ransom -- The Grave / Katherine Anne Porter -- Ode to the Confederate Dead; Mediterranean; Aeneas at Washinton / Allen Tate -- The Brilliant Leaves / Caroline Gordon -- Lily daw and the Three Ladies / Eudora Welty -- Barn Burning; Nobel Prize Award Speech / William Faulkner
Subject Southern States -- Civilization.
Southern States.
Civilization.
American literature -- Southern States.
American literature.