In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region -- some defending it, others damning it. He focuses on fourteen practitioners of the southern genre of regional confession who wrote between 1850 and 1970, showing how they -- in many cases linking their own destinies with the fate of the South -- produced deeply felt, impassioned books that sought to explain the region to outsiders as well as to fellow southerners, and perhaps most of all to themselves.
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In this insight-studded work that established him as the premier interpreter of southern literary culture, Fred Hobson explores the southern urge toward self-examination, the seeming compulsion of southern writers to discuss their region -- some defending it, others damning it. He focuses on fourteen practitioners of the southern genre of regional confession who wrote between 1850 and 1970, showing how they -- in many cases linking their own destinies with the fate of the South -- produced deeply felt, impassioned books that sought to explain the region to outsiders as well as to fellow southerners, and perhaps most of all to themselves.
Imprint | Louisiana State University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Southern Literary Studies |
Release date | October 1983 |
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First published | October 1983 |
Authors | Fred Hobson |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 408 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8071-1131-4 |
Barcode | 9780807111314 |
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LSN | 0-8071-1131-7 |