Sarah Gardner (Georgia Mercer University)

Reviewing the South

The Literary Marketplace and the Southern Renaissance, 1920-1941

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies on the American South
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9781316602379
• ISBN-10: 1316602370
• Artikelnr.: 57089662

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.