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Allen Tate
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ISBN: 0813228646 9780813228648 9780813228631 0813228638 Year: 2016 Publisher: Washington, D.C.

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"This book reassesses the importance of Allen Tate (1899-1976), a former U.S. Poet Laureate, as a uniquely Southern and fundamentally religious poet and a critic. Through close analysis of Tate's essays and poems, the author argues that the arc of Tate's career presents a coherent effort to understand the Modernist's sense of the "dissociated sensibility, and that in his conversion to Catholicism, he found the means of rediscovering unified existence" --

The American historical romance
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ISBN: 0521332826 0521389372 051155382X Year: 1987 Publisher: Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press

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This book traces the tradition of American historical fiction from its origins in the early nineteenth century to the eve of World War II. It examines the historical novel's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history; with the rise of literary regionalism; with the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance; with changing conceptions of gender roles; and with the authors' troubled responses to the great revolutionary and imperialistic conflicts of the modern era. However, though inevitably much concerned with the theory of genre and with the specific contents of the genre of historical romance, Professor Dekker devotes most of his book to new readings of major texts by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Allen Tate, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and William Faulkner, as well as to the Briton whose name was synonymous with the genre for most of the nineteenth century - Sir Walter Scott. 'The American Historical Romance is the richest, most fully meditated and most rewarding yet written by this author ... It is the most important book on the relations of British and American fiction to come out for many years. No devotee of the American novel will ignore it.' -- The Times Literary Supplement


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Disturbing calculations : the economics of identity in postcolonial Southern literature, 1912-2002
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ISBN: 1282553208 0820336726 9780820336725 082032972X 0820331120 9780820329727 9780820331126 Year: 2008 Publisher: Athens London University of Georgia Press

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Moments of mathematical reckoning pervade twentieth-century southern literature by authors including William Faulkner, Anita Loos, William Attaway, and Dorothy Allison, revealing a calculation-obsessed, anxiety-ridden discourse in which numbers are employed to determine social and racial hierarchies and establish individual worth and identity.

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