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Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870-1900 (American Literatures Initiative)
Bill Hardwig
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Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-colour fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation's leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century South. In many ways, he attests, the national representation of the South was controlled more firmly by periodical editors working in the Northeast, such as William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Richard Watson Gilder, than by writers living in and writing about the region. Fears about national unity, immigration, industrialisation, and racial dynamics in the South could be explored ... Read more
Drawing on tourist literature, travelogues, and local-colour fiction about the South, Bill Hardwig tracks the ways in which the nation's leading interdisciplinary periodicals, especially the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, and the Century, translated and broadcast the predominant narratives about the late-nineteenth-century South. In many ways, he attests, the national representation of the South was controlled more firmly by periodical editors working in the Northeast, such as William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and Richard Watson Gilder, than by writers living in and writing about the region. Fears about national unity, immigration, industrialisation, and racial dynamics in the South could be explored ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
American Literatures Initiative
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813934051
SKU
V9780813934051
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About Bill Hardwig
Bill Hardwig is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, USA.
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