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The Literary South: Louisiana
The Literary South affords the general reader access to southern writers and their concerns over the past several hundred years, it also serves as an authoritative textbook anthology for the study of southern literature. Divided into 5 sections--colonial, Old South, post-Civil War, Renascence, and post-Renascence, or contemporary--the anthology includes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama.
735 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1979
About the author
Louis D. Rubin Jr.
105 books4 followersLouis Decimus Rubin Jr. was born into a Jewish family in Charleston, South Carolina, on November 19, 1923. He studied for two years at the College of Charleston, served in the Army during World War II (1939–1945), and earned a BA in history at the University of Richmond.
Louis D. Rubin is a writer, editor, publisher, educator, and literary critic, and perhaps the person most responsible for the emergence of southern literature as a field of scholarly inquiry. He served on the faculty of Hollins College (now Hollins University) in Roanoke, Virginia. He coedited Southern Renascence, an important compilation of southern studies; founded the journal Hollins Critic; established the Southern Literary Studies series at the Louisiana State University Press; cofounded the Southern Literary Journal; cofounded Algonquin Books, a literary press that showcases emerging southern writers; and promoted the early work of important southern writers, including Clyde Edgerton, John Barth, and Virginia writers Lee Smith and Annie Dillard.
Louis D. Rubin is a writer, editor, publisher, educator, and literary critic, and perhaps the person most responsible for the emergence of southern literature as a field of scholarly inquiry. He served on the faculty of Hollins College (now Hollins University) in Roanoke, Virginia. He coedited Southern Renascence, an important compilation of southern studies; founded the journal Hollins Critic; established the Southern Literary Studies series at the Louisiana State University Press; cofounded the Southern Literary Journal; cofounded Algonquin Books, a literary press that showcases emerging southern writers; and promoted the early work of important southern writers, including Clyde Edgerton, John Barth, and Virginia writers Lee Smith and Annie Dillard.
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July 29, 2011
This is a great anthology in that it goes well back to early writing in the Colonial period and includes the Old South, after the war, and what's called the "Southern literary Renascence", plus contemporary pieces. Thus, you will find a lot of selections that I've never seen in other collections, and material not covered in most American literature courses. Probably a book that you'd only find in a college bookstore or a library, but it's still in print last I knew.
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