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Work of the Fellows: Edited Volumes; Fiction and Poetry

The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology

Edited by Trudier Harris (NHC Fellow, 1996–97; 2018–19), Minrose C. Gwin, and William L. Andrews

American Literature; American South

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

From the publisher’s description:

The Literature of the American South reconsiders southern writing from its seventeenth-century origins to its flourishing present. Featuring the works of eighty-seven classic, contemporary, and newly recovered writers of all genres--poetry, short fiction, drama, novels, autobiography, criticism, sermons, memoirs, journals, and letters--this groundbreaking anthology sheds new light on the creative power of the southern imagination.

Subjects
Literature / Fiction and Poetry / Literary Criticism / American Literature / American South /

Harris, Trudier (NHC Fellow, 1996–97; 2018–19), ed. The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology. Edited by Trudier Harris, Minrose C. Gwin, and William L. Andrews. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.