Reviewing the South - The Literary Marketplace and the Southern Renaissance, 1920-1941

Informationen zum Autor Sarah Gardner is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Southern Studies at Mercer University, Georgia where she teaches courses on the American South, nineteenth-century America, and print culture. She is the author of Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861–1937 (2012) and co-editor of Voices of the American South (2004). Klappentext An examination of the literary marketplace's central role in creating the Southern Literary Renaissance. Zusammenfassung A new take on the origins of the Southern Literary Renaissance! Reviewing the South shows how book reviewing played a vital role in shaping an image of the South in the American national consciousness during the interwar years. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: from Renaissance to reformation; 1. The world the reviewers made; 2. The cultural economy of reading in the interwar years; 3. The South meets Harlem; 4. Confronting Jim Crow; 5. Away down South in the land of problems; 6. A class of burden bearers; 7. The most audacious book ever written by Southerners; 8. Fiction fights the Civil War; Epilogue.

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• Authors: Sarah Gardner, Sarah (Mercer University Gardner, Sarah E. Gardner, Gardner Sarah
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2017
• EAN: 9781107147942
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14794-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the Ameri; Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Colonialism & imperialism, Literature & literary studies, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature