An Overview of Southern Literature by Genre
Lucinda MacKethan, North Carolina State University
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Essay Sections:
Introduction | Literatures of Slavery | Literatures of Pastoral | Literatures of Resistance | Recommended Resources


Recommended Resources For Further Reading in Southern Literature by Genre:

Print Books and Articles
Andrews, William L. To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Brinkmeyer, Robert H. Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2000.

Fetterley, Judith, and Marjorie Pryse. Writing Out of Place: Regionalism, Women, and American Literary Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

Flora, Joseph P. and Lucinda H. MacKethan, eds. The Companion to Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

Gray, Richard. Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

Guinn, Matthew. After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2000.

Heilman, Robert. “The Southern Temper.” In Rubin and Jacobs, Southern Renascence.

Holman, C. Hugh. “No More Monoliths, Please: Continuities in the Multi-Souths.” Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise, ed. Philip Castille and William Osborne. Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1983.

Inness, Sherrie A., and Diana Royer. Breaking Boundaries: New Perspectives on Women's Regional Writing. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997.

Jones, Suzanne W., and Sharon Monteith. South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

Kreyling, Michael. Inventing Southern Literature. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

MacKethan, Lucinda H. The Dream of Arcady: Place and Time in Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.

Perry, Carolyn, and Mary Louise Weaks, eds. The History of Southern Women's Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr., and Robert D. Jacobs, Jr. Southern Renascence: The Literature of the Modern South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1953.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr., et al., eds. The History of Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.

Yaeger, Patricia. Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930-1990. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.


Online Resources in Southern Literature
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
Online Library of Southern Literature and other hypertext links for southern literature and history

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/
Center for the Study of Southern Culture

http://www.southernscribe.com/resources/resources.htm
Resources for Southern Writers

http://www.missq.msstate.edu/sssl/
Bibliography: SSSL's Checklist of Scholarship on Southern Literature

General Resources in American Literature
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
hypertext links for American literature

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/aufram.html
extensive biographical and online text lists for U.S. authors

http://www.bartleby.com/
Bartleby books online, U.S. literary texts

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/index.htm
Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color

http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/books/links.html
19th Century American Women Writers on the Web

http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/7327/modernism.html
American Woman Writers 1890-1939


Information on Southern Writers by State
http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec34det.html
Alabama writers of the nineteenth century

http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/
Georgia Writers (Hall of Fame)

http://www.gabooks.com/authors.htm
Georgia writers

http://www.arh.eku.edu/Eng/SERVICES/KYLIT/Default.htm
Kentucky writers

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/la/
Louisiana writers (deceased)

http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/lit.html
Maryland writers

http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/
Mississippi writers


Essay Sections:
Introduction | Literatures of Slavery | Literatures of Pastoral | Literatures of Resistance | Recommended Resources


Published: 16 February 2004

© 2004 Lucinda MacKethan and Southern Spaces