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Offers rich insights into the closing chapter of Robert Penn Warren's professional and personal life, making it an essential resource for understanding the full scope of the author's contribution to American letters.

For the US South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honour and gentility run throughout regional narratives. In Queer Chivalry, Tison Pugh exposes the inherent contradictions in these depictions of cavalier manhood.

In this expansive study, Bryan Giemza recovers a neglected subculture and retrieves a missing chapter of Irish Catholic heritage by canvassing the literature of American Irish writers from the US South. Giemza offers a defining new view of Irish American authors and their interrelationships within both transatlantic and ethnic regional contexts.

In this collection, historians and literary scholars explore an enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American South. Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they "deconstruct Dixie", insisting that writing the South's history means harnessing the power of narrative.

Examines how converging political and cultural movements helped to create dualistic images of southern poor white female characters in Depression-era literature. Lancaster focuses on how the evolving eugenics movement reinforced the dichotomy of altruistic maternal figures and destructive sexual deviants.

At once a meditation on this poetic city, its many languages and cultures, and a history of its forgotten poetry. Using Sappho's fragments as a guide, Ruth Salvaggio roams the streets of the city as she explores the migrations of lyric poetry from ancient Greece through the African slave trade to indigenous America and ultimately to New Orleans.

Never in its long history has the South provided an entirely comfortable home for the intellectual. In this thought-provoking contribution to the field of southern studies, Tara Powell considers the evolving ways that major post-World War II southern writers have portrayed intellectuals.

The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Carter, and the national "malaise," Robert Penn Warren produced a phenomenal body of work, securing his place in the canon of American poetry.

Provides the most comprehensive treatment of autobiographies by women in the American South. This long-anticipated addition to Peggy Prenshaw's study of southern literature spans the twentieth century as she provides an in-depth look at the life-writing of eighteen women authors.

Critics often trace the prevailing mood of despair and purported nihilism in the works of Cormac McCarthy to the striking absence of interior thought in his seemingly amoral characters. In No More Heroes, however, Lydia Cooper reveals that though McCarthy limits inner revelations, he never eliminates them entirely.

Through Dr Edgar Wiggin Francisco's vivid childhood recollections, Ledgers of History offers a compelling portrait of the future Nobel Laureate near the midpoint of his legendary career, and also charts a significant discovery that will inevitably lead to revisions in historical and critical scholarship on Faulkner and his writings.

Once, history and "the South" dwelt in close proximity. Representations of the South in writing and on film assumed "everybody knew" what had happened in place and time to create the South. Today, our vision of the South varies, and there is less "there there" than ever before. In The South That Wasn't There, Michael Kreyling explores a series of literary situations in which memory and history seem to work in odd and problematic ways. Lively and frequently confrontational, The South That Wasn't There offers a thought provoking reexamination of our literary conceptions about the South.

Collects nineteenth-century stories, sketches, and book excerpts by a gallery of authors to create a comprehensive collection of writings about the riverboat gambler. Thomas Ruys Smith puts the twenty-eight selections in perspective with an introduction that explores the history and myth surrounding this fascinating American cultural icon.

Presents the first book-length study of the sexually violent African American man, or "black beast", as a composite literary phenomenon. According to Andrew Leiter, the black beast theme served as a link between the Harlem and Southern Renaissances, with writers from both movements exploring its psychological, cultural, and social ramifications.

Despite critical acclaim for Robert Penn Warren's later poetry, much about this large body of work remains unexplored, especially the psychological sources of these poems' remarkable energy. Joseph Millichap takes advantage of research on developmental psychology, gerontology, and end-of-life studies to offer new readings of Warren's later poems.

From 1840 to 1848, journalist C. M. Haile published a series of mock letters-to-the-editor in the New Orleans Picayune under the pseudonym "Pardon Jones". In this volume, Ed Piacentino collects all of Haile's epistles, highlighting this trove of Old Southwest humour and the prolific writer's foremost literary achievement.

From antebellum times, Louisiana's unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In Becoming Cajun, Becoming American, Maria Hebert-Leiter explores how American writers have portrayed Acadian culture over the past 150 years.

From 1943 to 1953, William Styron wrote over one hundred letters to William C. Styron, Sr, detailing his adventures, his works in progress, and his ruminations on the craft of writing. In Letters to My Father, Styron biographer James L.W. West III collects this correspondence for the first time.

The Fourth Ghost examines how white Southern writers from the 1930s confronted a crucial question haunting their identities as southerners and coloring their imaginative visions: how did the authoritarianism and the racial politics of European fascism, particularly that of Nazi Germany, relate to southern culture? Writers examined in this wide-ranging study include the Nashville Agrarians, W. J. Cash, William Alexander Percy, Lillian Smith, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, Robert Penn Warren, and Lillian Hellman.

Traces a line of southern writers from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, finding that an obsessive need to defend the South and the oft-noted "rage to explain" drove some creative writers to make forays into history and biography in an effort to enter a more public sphere where they could influence interpretations of the past.

Captures all of the flavour and richness of Louisiana's heritage, illuminating how the state, despite its differences from the rest of the United States, is a microcosm of key national concerns, including regionalism, race, politics, immigration, global connections, folklore, musical traditions, ethnicity, and hybridity.

In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Ryan suggests that discourses about American slavery are - and have always been - defined by connections rather than disjunctions.

WILLIAM FAULKNER, WILLIAM JAMES, AND THE AMERICAN PRAGMATIC TRADITION pairs the writings of America's most intellectually challenging modern novelist, William Faulkner, and the ideas of America's most revolutionary modern philosopher, William James to demonstrate that Faulkner's writing is deeply connected to the emergence of pragmatism as an intellectual doctrine and as a cultural force in the early twentieth century. With its creative coupling of James's philosophy and Faulkner's art, Evans's lively, engaging book makes a bold contribution to Faulkner studies and studies of southern literature.

Explores the complex racial mythology created by the upper classes of the antebellum South in the wake of divisive events to justify secession and, eventually, the Civil War. This mythology cast southerners as descendants of the Normans of eleventh-century England and thus also of the Cavaliers of the seventeenth century.

Volume four of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren covers a crucial time of personal and professional rejuvenation in Warren's life. During the fifteen-year period spanned by this correspondence, he completed Brother to Dragons, Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South and Who Speaks for the Negro?

Often compared to William Faulkner, renowned American writer William Humphrey (1924-1997) sought to shatter myths about the South in acclaimed novels and in his voluminous short stories, critical essays, and memoirs. This collection of Humphrey's best letters deserves space on the bookshelf alongside his earlier works.

Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Brannon Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviours associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy were believed to be essential for white southerners.

Examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. Using critical race theory, King builds a powerful argument that the stereotype of the black thief is an inevitable byproduct of American law, politics, and social customs.

A challenge to traditional criticism, this engaging study demonstrates that issues of sexuality - and same-sex desire in particular - were of central importance in the literary production of the Southern Renaissance.

Lewis P. Simpson towers among scholars of American literary studies, as an intellectual historian of the South and American literary culture and a revered essayist. His last book, Imagining Our Time, offers a wide-ranging, erudite, and enlightening look at the culture of letters in American society.