The Dream of Arcady: Place and Time in Southern Literature

by Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan

Book Overview

This is a well-organized, gracefully written account of a significant aspect of Southern fiction, and it contains information and incisive commentary that one can find nowhere else. --Thomas Daniel Young
Many southern writers imagined the South as a qualified dream of Arcady. They retained the glow of the golden land as a device to expose or rebuke, to confront or escape the complexities of the actual times in which they lived.
The Dream...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807124931
• ISBN13: 9780807124932
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"