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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The men of each race that are now in active life have not the attitude to each other that their fathers had . There could be no more conclusive or startling evidence of such a change than the frequency of a social crime that was unknown ...
The men of each race that are now in active life have not the attitude to each other that their fathers had . There could be no more conclusive or startling evidence of such a change than the frequency of a social crime that was unknown ...
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Here , too , the presence of both races must be remembered . ... And during this generation of political race - conflict , as the old type of gentleman of the former time has receded into tradition , the qualities that were ...
Here , too , the presence of both races must be remembered . ... And during this generation of political race - conflict , as the old type of gentleman of the former time has receded into tradition , the qualities that were ...
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A correspondent , a Negro who has spent many years in teaching his race and is a man held in esteem where he lives , puts this question : “ Why is it that a white man never was and never will be lynched for a similar crime against a ...
A correspondent , a Negro who has spent many years in teaching his race and is a man held in esteem where he lives , puts this question : “ Why is it that a white man never was and never will be lynched for a similar crime against a ...
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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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