A New Reader of the Old South: Major Stories, Tales, Slave Narratives, Diaries, Travelogues, Poetry and Songs, 1820-1920Ben Forkner, Patrick H. Samway Peachtree Publishers, 1991 - 644 էջ The 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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... fact announced was this . No noted public character , no highly placed politician , could do anything so wrong as to ... facts — and the names will attach themselves instantly in every mind . " Mr. Preston was indignant and eloquent in ...
... fact announced was this . No noted public character , no highly placed politician , could do anything so wrong as to ... facts — and the names will attach themselves instantly in every mind . " Mr. Preston was indignant and eloquent in ...
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... fact be known , and then the fact is fully able to protect and take care of itself . Like a ducal title , there is no need of saying more than to name it : modesty then is a becoming and expected virtue ; forbearance to boast is true ...
... fact be known , and then the fact is fully able to protect and take care of itself . Like a ducal title , there is no need of saying more than to name it : modesty then is a becoming and expected virtue ; forbearance to boast is true ...
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... fact , " went into decay " in Antigua . I have admitted that , under similar circumstances , it might profitably cease here — that is , profitably to the individual proprietors . Give me half the value of my slaves , and compel them to ...
... fact , " went into decay " in Antigua . I have admitted that , under similar circumstances , it might profitably cease here — that is , profitably to the individual proprietors . Give me half the value of my slaves , and compel them to ...
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A Plantation Echo | 106 |
The Edisto Raftsman | 122 |
Selections from Slave Narratives and Diaries | 131 |
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