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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... heart ? They say at Kirkwood that you had better let your brains alone awhile and cultivate heart . " She had evidently caught up a phrase and repeated it again and again for my benefit . So that is the way they talk of me ! The only ...
... heart ? They say at Kirkwood that you had better let your brains alone awhile and cultivate heart . " She had evidently caught up a phrase and repeated it again and again for my benefit . So that is the way they talk of me ! The only ...
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... heart was then ill at ease , but my smiling countenance did not betray it . Only a year had passed , but what fearful changes it had wrought ! My heart had grown gray in misery . Lives that flash in sunshine , and lives that are born in ...
... heart was then ill at ease , but my smiling countenance did not betray it . Only a year had passed , but what fearful changes it had wrought ! My heart had grown gray in misery . Lives that flash in sunshine , and lives that are born in ...
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... heart , as any four girls in the country . The only difficulty was , they were so much alike , that you were put to fault which to fall in love with . They were all good housewives , or women , rather . But Mrs. Wormley , or Aunt ...
... heart , as any four girls in the country . The only difficulty was , they were so much alike , that you were put to fault which to fall in love with . They were all good housewives , or women , rather . But Mrs. Wormley , or Aunt ...
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A Plantation Echo | 106 |
The Edisto Raftsman | 122 |
Selections from Slave Narratives and Diaries | 131 |
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