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The history of southern women's literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Perry, Carolyn, Weaks-Baxter, Mary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2002]
Series:Southern literary studies.
Subjects:
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Southern States.
Women > Southern States > Intellectual life.
Women and literature > Southern States.
Southern States > Intellectual life.
Southern States > In literature.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • I. The antebellum and bellum south (beginnings to 1865). Introdution to part I
  • Antebellum journals and collections of letters
  • Captivity narratives
  • Gender issues in the old South
  • Eliza Lucas Pinckney
  • The novel
  • Women's magazines
  • Caroline Howard Gilman
  • The Grimké sisters
  • Louisa S. McCord
  • Caroline Lee Hentz
  • Early African American women writers
  • Southern women writers' response to Uncle Tom's cabin
  • Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Civil War diaries and memoirs
  • Mary Chesnut
  • II. The postbellum South (1865-1900). Introduction to part II
  • The new woman of the.
  • new South
  • The postbellum novel
  • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
  • Southern history in the imagination of African American women writers
  • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
  • Southern women journalists
  • Southern women humorists
  • Mary Noailles Murfree
  • Southern women poets of the Victorian Age
  • Louisiana writers of the postbellum South
  • Kate Chopin
  • Grace King
  • Anna Julia Cooper
  • Alice Dunbar-Nelson
  • III. Renaissance in the South (1900-1960). Introduction to part III
  • Southern women writers and the beginning of the Renaissance
  • The modern novel
  • Gone with the Wind and its influence
  • Southern women's autobiography
  • Women writers and the myths of southern womanhood
  • Re-visioning the southern land
  • Women writers of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Appalachian writers
  • Southern women writers and social issues
  • The growing importance of literary circles and mentors
  • Ellen Glasgow
  • Julia Peterkin
  • Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Frances Newman
  • Katherine Anne Porter
  • Evelyn Scott
  • Caroline Gordon
  • Lillian Smith
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Lillian Hellman
  • Eudora Welty
  • Carson McCullers
  • Flannery O'Connor
  • Harper Lee
  • IV. The contemporary South (1960 to the.
  • present). Introduction to part IV
  • Myths of southern womanhood in contemporary literature
  • Southern women writers and the women's movement
  • Contemporary autobiography and memoir
  • Contemporary writers and race
  • Contemporary poetry
  • Southern women writers in a changing landscape
  • A second southern renaissance
  • Margaret Walker
  • Mary Lee Settle
  • Elizabeth Spencer
  • Ellen Douglas
  • Maya Angelou
  • Shirley Ann Grau
  • Doris Betts
  • Sonia Sanchez
  • Ellen Gilchrist
  • Gail Godwin
  • Bobbie Ann Mason
  • Anne Tyler
  • Alice Walker
  • Rita Mae Brown
  • Lee Smith
  • Josephine.
  • Humphreys
  • Dorothy Allison
  • Beth Henley
  • Jayne Anne Phillips
  • Jill McCorkle
  • Kaye Gibbons
  • Afterward: The future of southern women's writing
  • Appendix: The study of southern women's literature.