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The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature
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The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature
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Overview
Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.
This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetical order by author, the entries discuss each author's life and work, contributions to Georgia history and culture, and relevance to wider currents in regional and national literature. Lists of recommended readings supplement most entries.
Especially important Georgia books have their own entries: works of social significance such as Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, international publishing sensations like Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, and crowning artistic achievements including Jean Toomer's Cane. The literary culture of the state is also covered, with information on the Georgia Review and other journals; the Georgia Center for the Book, which promotes authors and reading; and the Townsend Prize, given in recognition of the year's best fiction. This is an essential volume for readers who want both to celebrate and learn more about Georgia's literary heritage.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780820343006 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
| Publication date: | 08/15/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 472 |
| File size: | 1 MB |
About the Author
HUGH RUPPERSBURG is Emeritus University Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the literature section editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
ALEXANDER MACAULAY was a cadet at The Citadel when the first woman enrolled there. He is an associate professor of history at Western Carolina University.
CRAIG LLOYD was a professor emeritus of history and former Director of Archives at Columbus State University.
DAVID B. PARKER is a professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of Alias Bill Arp: Charles Henry Smith and the South's "Goodly Heritage".
EDWIN T. ARNOLD is a professor of English at Appalachian State University. He is the author or editor of nine books on southern literature and culture and is editor of the Faulkner Journal.
JACQUELINE MILLER CARMICHAEL, who formerly taught English at Georgia State University, lives in Atlanta.
JAMES C. COBB is the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. His numerous publications include Redefining Southern Culture and The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity (both Georgia), Away Down South, The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990 and The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity.
JAMES J. LORENCE (1937–2012) was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County. From 2001 to 2005 he served as Eminent Scholar of History at Gainesville State College. His books include A Hard Journey, Screening America, and The Suppression of "Salt of the Earth".
MEGAN KATE NELSON is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. Based in Lincoln, Massachusetts, she has written about Civil War and western history for a number of national publications. Nelson also writes a regular column on Civil War popular culture, “Stereoscope,” for Civil War Monitor, and her blog, Historista examines the “surprising and weird ways that people engage with history in everyday life.” Nelson is also the author of Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Georgia). She has taught at Texas Tech University; California State University, Fullerton; Harvard University; and Brown University.
MICHAEL E. PRICE is a professor of history and social science education at Armstrong Atlantic State University.
PHILIP LEE WILLIAMS is the author of eleven books, including The True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset and Crossing Wildcat Ridge. His novel A Distant Flame is winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. Williams lives with his family near Athens, Georgia.
R. BRUCE BICKLEY, JR., is Griffith T. Pugh Professor of English, Emeritus, Florida State University. His books include The Method of Melville's Short Fiction, two annotated bibliographies of Harris scholarship, and, coedited with John T. Bickley, Nights with Uncle Remus.
SARAH GORDON is a professor emerita of English at Georgia College and State University. She was for many years the chair of her university’s internationally renowned symposia on O’Connor. In addition she was the editor of the Flannery O’Connor Bulletin and the founding editor of the Flannery O’Connor Review. Her books include Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination and Flannery O’Connor: In Celebration of Genius.
STEPHEN COREY is editor of the Georgia Review and the author of nine collections of poems, most recently There Is No Finished World.
STEVEN HARVEY is a professor of English at Young Harris College. The author of A Geometry of Lilies: Life and Death in an American Family, he was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1994. He lives in north Georgia.
ALEXANDER MACAULAY was a cadet at The Citadel when the first woman enrolled there. He is an associate professor of history at Western Carolina University.
CRAIG LLOYD was a professor emeritus of history and former Director of Archives at Columbus State University.
DAVID B. PARKER is a professor of history at Kennesaw State University. He is the author of Alias Bill Arp: Charles Henry Smith and the South's "Goodly Heritage".
EDWIN T. ARNOLD is a professor of English at Appalachian State University. He is the author or editor of nine books on southern literature and culture and is editor of the Faulkner Journal.
JACQUELINE MILLER CARMICHAEL, who formerly taught English at Georgia State University, lives in Atlanta.
JAMES C. COBB is the B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. His numerous publications include Redefining Southern Culture and The Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity (both Georgia), Away Down South, The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990 and The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity.
JAMES J. LORENCE (1937–2012) was a professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County. From 2001 to 2005 he served as Eminent Scholar of History at Gainesville State College. His books include A Hard Journey, Screening America, and The Suppression of "Salt of the Earth".
MEGAN KATE NELSON is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. Based in Lincoln, Massachusetts, she has written about Civil War and western history for a number of national publications. Nelson also writes a regular column on Civil War popular culture, “Stereoscope,” for Civil War Monitor, and her blog, Historista examines the “surprising and weird ways that people engage with history in everyday life.” Nelson is also the author of Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War (Georgia). She has taught at Texas Tech University; California State University, Fullerton; Harvard University; and Brown University.
MICHAEL E. PRICE is a professor of history and social science education at Armstrong Atlantic State University.
PHILIP LEE WILLIAMS is the author of eleven books, including The True and Authentic History of Jenny Dorset and Crossing Wildcat Ridge. His novel A Distant Flame is winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. Williams lives with his family near Athens, Georgia.
R. BRUCE BICKLEY, JR., is Griffith T. Pugh Professor of English, Emeritus, Florida State University. His books include The Method of Melville's Short Fiction, two annotated bibliographies of Harris scholarship, and, coedited with John T. Bickley, Nights with Uncle Remus.
SARAH GORDON is a professor emerita of English at Georgia College and State University. She was for many years the chair of her university’s internationally renowned symposia on O’Connor. In addition she was the editor of the Flannery O’Connor Bulletin and the founding editor of the Flannery O’Connor Review. Her books include Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination and Flannery O’Connor: In Celebration of Genius.
STEPHEN COREY is editor of the Georgia Review and the author of nine collections of poems, most recently There Is No Finished World.
STEVEN HARVEY is a professor of English at Young Harris College. The author of A Geometry of Lilies: Life and Death in an American Family, he was a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1994. He lives in north Georgia.
Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Literature: Overview 1
Conrad Aiken 12
Raymond Andrews 16
Tina McElroy Ansa 19
Bill Arp 22
Coleman Barks 24
Vereen Bell 30
Roy Blount Jr. 32
Adrienne Bond 34
David Bottoms 37
Elias Boudinot 42
Edgar Bowers 42
Van K. Brock 50
Olive Ann Burns 53
Kathryn Stripling Byer 56
Erskine Caldwell 59
Cane 65
Jimmy Carter 68
Turner Cassity 75
Chattahoochee Review 78
Brainard Cheney 80
Thomas Holley Chivers 82
Pearl Cleage 84
Judith Ortiz Cofer 88
The Color Purple 91
Pat Conroy 95
Stephen Corey 100
Alfred Corn 104
Harry Crews 107
Rosemary Daniell 111
Janice Daugharty 115
Deliverance 11
James Dickey 120
Driving MissDaisy 126
W. E. B. Du Bois in Georgia 129
Pam Durban 133
Margaret Edson 135
Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson) 138
Five Points 141
Berry Fleming 143
Francis Fontaine 145
Georgia Center for the Book 147
Georgia Humorists 149
Georgia Literature Commission 154
Georgia Nigger 156
Georgia Poetry Society 159
The Georgia Review 161
Georgia Writers Association 164
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame 166
God's Little Acre 168
Gone With the Wind 171
Henry W. Grady 177
Julien Green 180
Melissa Fay Greene 184
Walter Griffin 188
Lewis Grizzard 191
Anthony Grooms 194
Evelyn Hanna 196
Will Harben 198
Corra Harris 201
Joel Chandler Harris 205
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 213
Mary Hood 216
Mac Hyman 219
I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! 221
Arthur Crew Inman 225
Ha Jin 228
Georgia Douglas Johnson 232
Greg Johnson 235
Nunnally Johnson 238
Richard Malcolm Johnston 241
Tayari Jones 244
Jubilee 247
Terry Kay 250
James Kilgo 254
John Oliver Killens 258
Killers of the Dream 261
Martin Luther King Jr. 265
Sidney Lanier 272
Stanley Lindberg 276
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet 279
Grace Lumpkin 283
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin 286
A Man in Full 289
Frank Manley 293
Frances Mayes 296
Carson McCullers 298
Ralph McGill 304
James Alan McPherson 309
The Member of the Wedding 312
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 315
Caroline Miller 319
Judson Mitcham 322
Margaret Mitchell 326
Marion Montgomery 332
Frances Newman 336
Flannery O'Connor 336
Flannery O'Connor's Short Fiction 346
Eugenia Price 350
Wyatt Prunty 354
Janisse Ray 359
Byron Herbert Reece 362
John Rollin Ridge 366
Larry Rubin 370
Ferrol Sams 373
Bettie Sellers 376
Celestine Sibley 380
Anne Rivers Siddons 384
Charlie Smith 386
Lillian Smith 389
Strange Fruit 393
Swamp Water 396
William Tappan Thompson 400
Francis Orray Ticknor 404
Tobacco Road 406
Jean Toomer 409
Townsend Prize for Fiction 413
Lamar Trotti 415
Joseph Addison Turner 417
Alfred Uhry 420
Uncle Remus Tales 423
The Violent Bear It Away 427
John Donald Wade 429
Alice Walker 434
Don West 440
Bailey White 444
Walter White 446
Philip Lee Williams 451
Calder Willingham 454
The Wind Done Gone 457
Wise Blood 462
Frank Yerby 467
Contributors 471
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