Genres of Southern Literature
...the 1830s, northern writers and readers were busily creating assumptions about the South’s difference, and writers and readers of the South correspondingly defined themselves against the place (the North) or...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...I could write something set in North Carolina. I'd be among good company. BAUER: And speaking of North Carolina writers, Jill McCorkle has actually told me she prefers writing short...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Alongside your dissertation were you still writing fiction? ANN: I was writing fiction whenever I could. That usually meant during breaks between quarters. While I was writing so much intellect-driven...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Carole Fife, Pufketa - "The Horn." When the congregation is called into church for services, a horn is always used. The one at Thlewarle is made from the horn of...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...spent on vetting content, conducting internal reviews, researching primary materials, emailing writers and archives, finding supportive media, researching historical information, gaining copyrights, and formatting the text for an online, born-digital...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Martin's Pictorial Guide to the Mammoth Cave [New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1851]) writes that "Far over head deep gloom doth sit, / And Nature is asleep" (11–12). Mammoth Cave appears in the...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Introduction U.S. Public Health Service Advertisements, ca. 1905. Photograph by Harris & Ewing. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/hec.20772/. In the winter of 1936, Minnie...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...write a story for Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Born in 1853 and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, Pyle admired the realistic writing of William Dean Howells. Pyle set out to capture...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...a pastoral, even Edenic, South, Eliot was in truth a Missourian, that most existentially challenging of all American identities. Like those of Samuel Clemens before him, Eliot's life and writings...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...I'd met Gary Henderson and Betsy Teter, both local journalists and writers. We began talking about our ideas of literary community. We proposed publishing a book of essays about Spartanburg....