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Southern excursions ; essays on Mark Twain and others /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leary, Lewis, 1906-1990
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1971]
Series:Southern literary studies.
Subjects:
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Humorous stories, American > History and criticism.
Twain, Mark, > 1835-1910 > Criticism and interpretation.
Southern States > Intellectual life.
Southern States > In literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Mark Twain and the comic spirit
  • Mark Twain's wound : standing with reluctant feet
  • The bankruptcy of Mark Twain
  • On writing about writers : especially Mark Twain
  • Tom and Huck : innocence on trial
  • The Lovingoods : notes towarda genealogy
  • The forlorn hope of Sidney Lanier
  • Lafcadio Hearn, 'One of our Southern writers'
  • The awakening of Kate Chopin
  • Kate Chopin's other novel
  • H.L. Mencken and the reluctant human race
  • William Faulkner and the grace of comedy.