Add to ORKGSitting in Darkness explores how fiction of the Reconstruction and the New South intervenes in debates over black schools, citizen building, Jim Crow discrimination, and U.S. foreign policy towards its territories and dependencies. The author urges a reexamination not only of the contents and formal innovations of New South literature but also its importance in U.S. literary history. Many rarely studied fiction authors (such as Ellwood Griest, Ellen Ingraham, George Marion McClellan, and Walter Hines Page) receive generous attention here, and well-known figures such as Albion Tourgee, Mark Twain, Frances E. W. Harper, W. E. B. Du Bois, Sutton Griggs, George Washington Cable, Thomas Dixon, and Owen Wister are illuminated in significant new ...
In Off Whiteness: Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature, Izabela Ho...
This dissertation examines the ways in which literary representations of readers and scenes of readi...
Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a “region” or of themselves as “southerners.” ...
This project argues that the national meanings of the South and civilization change in relation to e...
Though many scholars have explored the memory of slavery in Southern literature, my project expands ...
Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectua...
This study delineates Southern Gothic during the period of its emergence into a distinct literary fo...
This essay—a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-sp...
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as...
Kathryn B. McKee’s Reading Reconstruction situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDo...
What is southern literature? My study examines the role literary critics have played in constructing...
Imagined Literacies argues that antebellum ideologies of racial difference—the ways that early Ameri...
This project began with the intention to examine the connection between the aesthetic and the politi...
My dissertation examines the ways in which the short-story cycle has provided a unique generic frame...
A refreshing and intriguing interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which the history and cult...
In Off Whiteness: Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature, Izabela Ho...
This dissertation examines the ways in which literary representations of readers and scenes of readi...
Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a “region” or of themselves as “southerners.” ...
This project argues that the national meanings of the South and civilization change in relation to e...
Though many scholars have explored the memory of slavery in Southern literature, my project expands ...
Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectua...
This study delineates Southern Gothic during the period of its emergence into a distinct literary fo...
This essay—a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-sp...
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as...
Kathryn B. McKee’s Reading Reconstruction situates Mississippi writer Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDo...
What is southern literature? My study examines the role literary critics have played in constructing...
Imagined Literacies argues that antebellum ideologies of racial difference—the ways that early Ameri...
This project began with the intention to examine the connection between the aesthetic and the politi...
My dissertation examines the ways in which the short-story cycle has provided a unique generic frame...
A refreshing and intriguing interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which the history and cult...
In Off Whiteness: Place, Blood, and Tradition in Post-Reconstruction Southern Literature, Izabela Ho...
This dissertation examines the ways in which literary representations of readers and scenes of readi...
Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a “region” or of themselves as “southerners.” ...