The History of Southern Women's Literature

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1 The History of Southern Women's Literature edited by CAROLYN PERRY and MARY LOUISE WEAKS LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS Baton Rouge

2 Contents Preface xiii Introduction i Doris Betts I. The Antebellum and Bellum South (Beginnings to 1865) Introduction to Part I 7 Antebellum Journals and Collections of Letters 17 Mary D. Robertson Captivity Narratives 25 Karen A. Weyler Gender Issues in the Old South 3 2.

3 vi Contents Eliza Lucas Pinckney 43 Linda Garner The Novel 48 Karen Manners Smith Women's Magazines 59 Cindy A. Stiles Caroline Howard Gilman 64 Cindy A. Stiles The Grimke Sisters 70 Ellen H. Todras Louisa S. McCord 77 Richard C. Lounsbury Caroline Lee Hentz 82 Miriam J. Shillingsburg Early African American Women Writers 87 Janell Hobson and Frances Smith Foster Southern Women Writers' Responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin 97 Karen Manners Smith Harriet Ann Jacobs 103 William L. Andrews Civil War Diaries and Memoirs 109 Walter Sullivan Mary Chesnut 119 Elisabeth Muhlenfeld

4 Contents vii II. The Postbellum South ( ) Introduction to Part II 125 >< The New Woman of the New South 133 Emily Powers Wright X The Postbellum Novel 141 Amy Thompson McCandless Augusta Jane Evans Wilson 150 Amy Thompson McCandless Southern History in the Imagination of African American Women Writers 156 Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ^ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 164 Susanne B. Dietzel Southern Women Journalists 169 Maurine H. Beasley Southern Women Humorists 176 Kathryn McKee Mary Noailles Murfree 187 Benjamin F. Fisher Southern Women Poets of the Victorian Age 193 W. Kenneth Holditch Louisiana Writers of the Postbellum South 201 Joan Wylie Hall

5 viii Contents Kate Chopin 210 Barbara C. Ewell ^ Grace King 216 Clara Juncker Anna Julia Cooper 220 Roberta S. Maguire Alice Dunbar-Nelson 225 y Anne Razey Gowdy I. Renaissance in the South ( ) Introduction to Part III 233 Carolyn Perry Southern Women Writers and the Beginning of the Renaissance 242 Carol S. Manning The Modern Novel 251 Lucinda H. MacKethan Gone with the Wind and Its Influence 258 Helen Taylor Southern Women's Autobiography 268 Fred Hobson Women Writers and the Myths of Southern Womanhood 275 Anne Goodwyn Jones Re-Visioning the Southern Land 290 Elizabeth Jane Harrison Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance 296 Susan Morrison Hebble

6 Contents Appalachian Writers 309 Parks Lanier, Jr. Southern Women Writers and Social Issues 316 Anna Shannon Elfenbein The Growing Importance of Literary Circles and Mentors 329 Rosemary M. Magee Ellen Glasgow 336 Merrill Maguire Skaggs Julia Peter kin 343 Susan Millar Williams Elizabeth Madox Roberts 349 George Brosi Frances Newman 354 Miriam J. Shillingsburg Katherine Anne Porter 359 Janis P. Stout Evelyn Scott 3 64 Mary Wheeling Caroline Gordon 3 69 Nancylee Novell Jonza Lillian Smith 374 Will Brantley Zora Neale Hurston 3 79 John Lowe Lillian Hellman 386 Katherine Powell

7 x Contents Eudora Welty 391 Albert Devlin Carson McCullers 399 Carlos L. Dews Flannery O'Connor 404 Sally Fitzgerald Harper Lee 413 Carolyn M. Jones IV. The Contemporary South (1960 to the Present) Introduction to Part IV 421 Carolyn Perry Myths of Southern Womanhood in Contemporary Literature 429 Kathryn Lee Seidel Southern Women Writers and the Women's Movement 439 Barbara Bennett Contemporary Autobiography and Memoir 447 James H. Watkins Contemporary Writers and Race 455 Minrose C. Gwin Contemporary Poetry 467 Carolyn Perry Southern Women Writers in a Changing Landscape 478 Connie R. Schomburg A Second Southern Renaissance 491 Linda Tate

8 Contents Margaret Walker 498 Joyce Pettis Mary Lee Settle 503 Loretta Martin Murrey Elizabeth Spencer 508 Peggy Whitman Prenshaw Ellen Douglas 512 Maya Angelou 517 Wallis Tinnie Shirley Ann Grau 525 Linda Wagner-Martin Doris Betts 530 Mary Anne Heyward Ferguson Sonia Sanchez 535 Joanne V. Gabbin Ellen Gilchrist 541 Margaret D. Bauer Gail Godwin 545 Lihong Xie Bobbie Ann Mason 550 Joseph M. Flora Anne Tyler 559 Susan Elizabeth Sweeney Alice Walker 563 Barbara T. Christian

9 xii Contents Rita Mae Brown 570 Harold Woodell Lee Smith 575 Nancy Parrish Josephine Humphreys 579 Elinor Ann Walker Dorothy Allison 584 Carolyn E. Megan Beth Henley 588 Karen L. Laughlin Jayne Anne Phillips 594 Suzanne Disheroon-Green JillMcCorkle 599 Jenifer B. Elmore Kaye Gibbons 604 Veronica Makowsky Afterword: The Future of Southern Women's Writing 610 and Carolyn Perry Appendix: The Study of Southern Women's Literature 621 Anne E. Rowe Bibliography of General Secondary Sources on Southern Women's Literature 633 Contributors 641 Index 653