A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920The literary Canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. The literary canon of the old South is redefined in this remarkable companion to the highly acclaimed A Modern Southern Reader. Editors Ben Forkner and Patrick Samway, S. J. have selected from the most original and lasting works of nineteenth-century Southern writing (1820-1920) to reflect the full range of the Southern experience. The thorough introduction illuminates the individual pieces, providing insight into the culture of the Old South, from which rose a new generation of prominent, American writers. Features the work of Kate Chopin, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ellen Glasgow, Henry Grady, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Jefferson, James Weldon Johnson, Sidney Lanier, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, and many others. |
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As I writhed under it , I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing . It had given me a view of my wretched condition , without the remedy . It opened my eyes to the horrible pit , but to no ...
As I writhed under it , I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing . It had given me a view of my wretched condition , without the remedy . It opened my eyes to the horrible pit , but to no ...
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As regards their religious condition , it is well known that a majority of the communicants of the Methodist and Baptist churches of the South are colored . Almost everywhere they have precisely the same opportunities of attending ...
As regards their religious condition , it is well known that a majority of the communicants of the Methodist and Baptist churches of the South are colored . Almost everywhere they have precisely the same opportunities of attending ...
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“ A lower condition of morals , in the fullest sense of the term , could not , I think , be found . I do not mean by this that there are many more prominent vices among them , but that moral feelings and sentiments do not exist .
“ A lower condition of morals , in the fullest sense of the term , could not , I think , be found . I do not mean by this that there are many more prominent vices among them , but that moral feelings and sentiments do not exist .
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| Վերնագիր | A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920 |
| Editors | Ben Forkner, Patrick H. Samway |
| Հրատարակիչ | Peachtree Publishers, 1991 |
| Original from | Միչիգանի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 29 Փետրվար 2008 |
| ISBN | 1561450200, 9781561450206 |
| Length | 644 էջ |
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