Louis D Rubin

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1) The teller in the tale

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The effect upon the reader of the storyteller's presence in his own work is explored through many novels as diverse as "Don Quixote" and "Huckleberry Finn."

2) The wary fugitives: four poets and the South

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Rubin explores the relationships between the poetry, novels, and literary criticism of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren.

3) Thomas Wolfe: the weather of his youth

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4) The edge of the swamp: a study in the literature and society of the Old South

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5) William Elliott shoots a bear: essays on the Southern Literary imagination

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Rubin presents essays which address the question of why southern writers write the way they do.

6) The comic imagination in American literature

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Based on a series of lectures prepared for the Voice of America.

7) George W. Cable: the life and times of a Southern heretic

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8) The curious death of the novel: essays in American literature

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9) Virginia: a Bicentennial history

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10) A gallery of Southerners

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11) Thomas Wolfe: a collection of critical essays

12) The literary South

13) The Yemassee lands: poems of Beatrice Ravenel

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Ravenel, Beatrice Witte

14) The American South: portrait of a culture

15) Ellen Glasgow: centennial essays

16) Mannerhouse: a play in a prologue and four acts

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17) I'll take my stand: the South and the agrarian tradition