Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary Contributor(s): Flora, Joseph M. (Editor), Vogel, Amber (Editor) |
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ISBN: 080710390X ISBN-13: 9780807103906 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $22.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1980 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Reference - Biography & Autobiography | Reference |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 78025899 |
Series: Southern Literary Studies (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 1.21" H x 6" W x 9" (1.74 lbs) 544 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Biographical sketches of 378 writers associated with the American South are included in this important new reference work. Compiled by 172 scholars, these summaries--many of which are not readily available elsewhere--provide in their total effect a brief history of southern literature from colonial times to the present.The volume is, in part, a companion to A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., ed.), a work that has become a standard reference for anyone seriously interested in the literature of the South. With its wealth of essential biographical information on the region's writers, both major and minor, this new guide will take its place alongside that earlier volume as an invaluable aid to the study of southern writing. Especially useful will be complete listings of the first printings of the books by each writer provided after the respective summaries.Included as contributors of the individual biographical summaries are most of the better-known scholars of southern literature, plus a number of promising young scholars. The editors, each of whom is an outstanding scholar in southern literary studies, are: |