Tell About the South - The Southern Rage to Explain

In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region - some defending it, others damning it. He focuses on fourteen practitioners of the southern genre of regional confession who wrote between 1850 and 1970, showing how they - in many cases linking their own destinies with the fate of the South - produced deeply felt, impassioned books that sought to explain the region to outsiders as well as to fellow southerners, and perhaps most of all to themselves.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Fred Hobson is Lineberger Professor in the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author, most recently, of Mencken: A Life.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Fred Hobson, Fred C. Hobson
• Verlag: Louisiana state univ pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.03.1998
• EAN: 9780807111314
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-1131-4
• Seiten: 391
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Southern Literary Studies (Pap; Southern Literary Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges