Cambridge Studies on the American South

Cambridge Studies on the American South

Gardner, Sarah (Mercer University, Georgia)

Cambridge University Press

04/2017

326

Dura

Inglês

9781107147942

15 a 20 dias

A new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance, Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played a vital role in shaping an image of the South in the American national consciousness during the interwar years.
Introduction: from Renaissance to reformation; 1. The world the reviewers made; 2. The cultural economy of reading in the interwar years; 3. The South meets Harlem; 4. Confronting Jim Crow; 5. Away down South in the land of problems; 6. A class of burden bearers; 7. The most audacious book ever written by Southerners; 8. Fiction fights the Civil War; Epilogue.