附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. "American Literature" (1831) / Hugh Swinton Legare -- 2. "Southern Literature" (1834) / James E. Heath -- 3. "Guy Rivers" (1834) / Lewis Gaylord Clark -- 4. "Georgia Scenes" (1836) / Edgar Allan Poe -- 5. "Southern Literature" (1841) / William Gilmore Simms -- 6. "The Newspaper and Periodical Press" (1842) -- 7. "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" (1845) / Margaret Fuller -- 8. "Wigwam and Cabin" (1846) / Edgar Allan Poe -- 9. "Simms's Stories and Reviews" (1846) / C.C. Felton -- 10. Review of Frederick Douglass's Life and Bondage (1855) -- 11. "Southern Literature" (1857) -- 12. "Literary Prospects of the South" (1858) / William Gilmore Simms -- 13. "Literature in the South" (1859) / Henry Timrod -- 14. "The Voice of the South" (1871) / Ed. S. Gregory -- 15. "Literature at the South" (1874) / Paul Hamilton Hayne -- 16. "Cable's 'Grandissimes'" (1880) / H.H. Boyesen -- 17. "Southern Literature" (1881).
摘要:Defining Southern Literature delineates several phases in the story of Southern literature. Debate over what makes Southern literature different - or even Southern - goes back many decades, and among the answers has been the debate itself, a uniquely pervasive regional self-consciousness over what makes Southern culture different. Certainly no other American region has been so distinctly "marked" as the South has. Attempts to delineate the special mission, nature, problems, and virtues of Southern writers can be traced back at least to the 1830s, when editors called - with only slight success - for a sectional literature and more supportive Southern readers.
