Literature

 edited by M. Thomas Inge and Charles Reagan Wilson

 

Offering a comprehensive view of the South’s literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new scholarship continues to question the assumptions of previous traditions, new connections arise. Southern literature’s links with literature from around the world prove just as important as its American context.

Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and the agrarians; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to more contemporary writers and other individuals who are not widely covered in previous scholarship.

M. Thomas Inge is Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph-Macon College. He is author or editor of numerous books, including William Faulkner and the four-volume Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture and critical editions of two Mark Twain novels.

Charles Reagan Wilson is Kelly Gene Cook Sr. Chair in the Cultural History of the American South at the University of Mississippi, and coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

          • Literature
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          • African American Literature
          • Agrarianism in Literature
          • Appalachian Literature
          • Autobiography and Memoir
          • Biography
          • Blues Literature
          • Civil Rights in Literature
          • Civil War in Literature
          • Detective Fiction
          • Folklore in Literature
          • Food in Literature
          • Fugitives and Agrarians
          • Gender and Sexuality in Literature
          • Globalization and Southern Literature
          • Humor
          • Indian Literature
          • Nature Writing and Writers
          • New Critics
          • North in Literature
          • Periodicals
          • Poetry
          • Popular Literature
          • Postcolonial Southern Literature
          • Postsouthern Literature
          • Publishing
          • Regionalism and Local Color
          • Religion and Literature
          • Southern Gothic
          • Theater, Early
          • Theater, Modern and Contemporary
          • Travel Writing
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          • Agee, James

          • Aiken, Conrad

          • Allen, James Lane

          • Allison, Dorothy

          • Ammons, A. R.

          • Andrews, Raymond

          • Ansa, McElroy Tina

          • Applewhite, James

          • Armstrong, Anne Wetzell

          • Arnow, Harriet Simpson

          • Atkins, Ace

          • Baldacci, David

          • Barth, John

          • Barthelme, Frederick

          • Bass, Rick

          • Basso, Hamilton

          • Bausch, Richard

          • Bell, Madison Smartt

          • Berry, Wendell

          • Betts, Doris

          • Blotner, Joseph

          • Blount, Roy Jr.

          • Bonner, Sherwood

          • Bontemps, Arna

          • Bradford, Roark

          • Bragg, Rick

          • Brickell, Henry Hershel

          • Brooks, Cleanth

          • Brown, Larry

          • Brown, Rita Mae

          • Brown, Sterling A.

          • Brown, William Wells

          • Burke, James Lee

          • Byrd II, William

          • Cabell, James Branch

          • Cable, George Washington

          • Caldwell, Erskine

          • Campbell, Will D.

          • Capote, Truman

          • Cash, W. J.

          • Chappell, Fred

          • Cherry, Kelly

          • Chesnut, Mary Boykin

          • Chesnutt, Charles W.

          • Chopin, Kate

          • Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”)

          • Cohn, David

          • Conroy, Pat

          • Crews, Harry

          • Crockett, David (Davy)

          • Crowley, Mart

          • Dargan, Olive Tilford

          • Davenport, Guy

          • Davidson, Donald

          • Deal, Borden

          • Dickey, James

          • Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

          • Douglas, Ellen

          • Douglass, Frederick

          • Dove, Rita

          • Du Bois, W. E. B.

          • Dykeman, Wilma

          • Edgerton, Clyde

          • Ellison, Ralph

          • Evans, Augusta Jane

          • Everett, Percival

          • Faulkner, William

          • Finney, Nikky

          • Fitzgerald, Zelda

          • Fletcher, John Gould

          • Foote, Horton

          • Foote, Shelby

          • Ford, Jesse Hill

          • Ford, Richard

          • Fox, William Price

          • Fox, John Jr.

          • Franklin, John Hope

          • Franklin, Tom

          • Frazier, Charles

          • Gaines, Ernest J.

          • Gaither, Frances Ormond Jones

          • Garrett, George

          • Gautraux, Tim

          • Gibbons, Kaye

          • Gilchrist, Ellen

          • Giovanni, Nikki

          • Glasgow, Ellen

          • Godwin, Gail

          • Gordon, Caroline

          • Grau, Shirley

          • Green, Paul

          • Greene, Melissa Fay

          • Grimsley, Jim

          • Grisham, John

          • Grizzard, Lewis

          • Groom, Winston

          • Grooms, Anthony

          • Gurganus, Allan

          • Haley, Alex

          • Hannah, Barry

          • Hardwick, Elizabeth

          • Harington, Donald

          • Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins

          • Harris, George Washington

          • Harris, Joel Chandler

          • Harris, Thomas

          • Haxton, Brooks

          • Hellman, Lillian

          • Henley, Beth

          • Heyward, DuBose

          • Holland, Endesha Ida Mae

          • Holman, C. Hugh

          • Hood, Mary

          • Hooper, Johnson Jones

          • Hubbell, Jay Broadus

          • Humphreys, Josephine

          • Hurston, Zora Neale

          • Jackson, Blyden

          • Jarrell, Randall

          • Jefferson, Thomas

          • Johnson, James Weldon

          • Johnston, Mary

          • Jones, Madison

          • Kenan, Randall

          • Kennedy, John Pendleton

          • King, Florence

          • King, Grace

          • Kingsolver, Barbara

          • Knight, Etheridge

          • Komunyaaka, Yusef

          • Lanier, Sidney

          • Lee, Harper

          • Lewis, Henry Clay

          • Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin

          • Lumpkin, Grace

          • Lumpkin, Katherine DuPree

          • Lytle, Andrew

          • Madden, David

          • Marion, Jeff Daniel

          • Mason, Bobbie Ann

          • McCarthy, Cormac

          • McCorkle, Jill

          • McCullers, Carson

          • Mencken, H. L.

          • Miller, Jim Wayne

          • Milligan, Jason

          • Mitchell, Margaret

          • Moody, Anne

          • Morgan, Robert

          • Morris, Willie

          • Morrison, Toni

          • Murfree, Mary Noailles (Charles Egbert Craddock)

          • Murray, Albert

          • Newman, Frances

          • Nordan, Lewis

          • O’Connor, Flannery

          • Owen, Guy

          • Page, Thomas Nelson

          • Percy, Walker

          • Percy, William Alexander

          • Peterkin, Julia Mood

          • Phillips, Jayne Anne

          • Poe, Edgar Allan

          • Porter, Katherine Anne

          • Portis, Charles

          • Price, Reynolds

          • Randolph, Vance

          • Ransom, John Crowe

          • Rash, Ron

          • Ray, Janisse

          • Reed, Ishmael

          • Reed, John Shelton

          • Richard, Mark

          • Roberts, Elizabeth Madox

          • Rubin, Jr., Louis D.

          • Rutledge, Archibald Hamilton

          • Sanders, Dori

          • Scott, Evelyn

          • Seay, James

          • Settle, Mary Lee

          • Simms, William Gilmore

          • Simpson, Lewis P.

          • Smith, Dave

          • Smith, Lee

          • Smith, Lillian

          • Southworth, E. D. E. N

          • Spencer, Elizabeth

          • Stanford, Frank

          • Stinke, Darcy

          • Still, James

          • Street, James

          • Stribling, T. S.

          • Stuart, Jesse

          • Stuart, Mary Routh (Ruth) McEnery

          • Styron, William

          • Sullivan, Walter

          • Tate, Allen

          • Taylor, Peter

          • Thorpe, Thomas Bangs

          • Timrod, Henry

          • Toole, John Kennedy

          • Toomer, Jean

          • Trethewey, Natasha

          • Tyler, Anne

          • Walker, Alice

          • Walker, Margaret

          • Warren, Robert Penn

          • Washington, Booker T.

          • Watkins, Samuel Rush

          • Welty, Eudora

          • Wilcox, James

          • Williams, Ben Ames

          • Williams, Tennessee

          • Wolfe, Thomas

          • Wolfe, Tom

          • Woodward, C. Vann

          • Wright, Richard

          • Yarbrough, Steve

          • Yerby, Frank

          • Young, Al

          • Young, Stark

          • Young, Thomas Daniel