Southern Writers and Their Worlds

by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Anne Goodwyn Jones, Susan A. Eacker

Book Overview

In this brilliant collection, five historians and literary critics explore the many ways that southern writers influence and are influenced by their region. Christopher Morris examines the relationship between economic development and the humor of such "Old Southwestern" writers as Augustus B. Longstreet and Johnson Jones Hooper, while Susan A. Eacker explains how South Carolina author Louisa McCord came to defend slavery. Anne Goodwyn Jones offers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807122742
• ISBN13: 9780807122747
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"