San Antonio College Library

This study of the formal elements of Southern prose suggests that it is not the region's history that makes its literature distinctive but the unique structure of Southern narrative expression. Drawing on the work of Frank Kermode, Erich Auerbach and other continental critics, Kreyling examines some 30 works, including early romantic historical novels by Beverly Tucker and George Tucker, and novels by William Gilmore Simons, Ellen Glasgow and Faulkner....

Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston are distinctly varying and individual writers of the American South whose work is identified with the Southern Literary Renaissance. This intertextual study assesses their autobiographical writings and their intellectual stature as modern women of letters. It is the first to include these writers in the socio-history of modern southern feminism...