Edge of the Swamp, Study in the Literature/Society of the Old South,L.D. Rubin

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Very Good
A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket (if applicable) included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“ex-library but otherwise looks almost new”
Product Type
Hardcover , non-fiction
Features
First printing
ISBN
9780807124338
EAN
9780807124338
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Publication Name
Edge of the Swamp : a Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South
Publisher
LSU
Item Length
9 in
Subject
American / General, American / Regional
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
Louis D. Rubin
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
LSU
ISBN-10
0807124338
ISBN-13
9780807124338
eBay Product ID (ePID)
866069

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
248 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Edge of the Swamp : a Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South
Publication Year
1999
Subject
American / General, American / Regional
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Author
Louis D. Rubin
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
88-027632
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
810.997
Synopsis
The flowering of literary imagination known as the American Renaissance had few roots in the South. While Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were creating a body of work that would endure, the only southern writer making a lasting contribution was Edgar Allan Poe. This failure on the part of antebellum southern writers has long been a subject of debate among students of southern history and literature. Now one of the region's most distinguished men of letters offers a cogently argued and gracefully written account of the circumstances that prevented early southern writers from creating transcendent works of art. Louis D. Rubin, Jr., brings forty years of critical integrity and imaginative involvement with the history and literature of the South to his informal inquiry into the foundations of the southern literary imagination. His exploration centers on the lives and works of three of the most important writers of the pre-Civil War South: Poe, William Gilmore Simms, and Henry Timrod. In a close and highly original reading of Poe's poetry and fiction, Rubin shows just how profoundly growing up in Richmond, Virginia, influenced that writer. The sole author of the Old South whose work has endured did not use southern settings or concern himself with his region's history or politics. Poe was, according to Rubin, in active rebellion against the middle-class community of Richmond and its materialistic values. Simms, on the other hand, aspired to the plantation society ideal of his native Charleston, South Carolina. He was not the most devoted and energetic of southern writers and one of the country's best-known and most respected literary figures before the Civil War. Rubin finds an explanation for much of the lost promise of antebellum southern literature in Simms's career. Here was a talented man who got caught up in the politically obsessed plantation community of Charleston, becoming an apologist for the system and an ardent defender of slavery. Timrod, also a Charlestonian native, was a highly gifted poet whose work attained the stature of literature when the Civil War gave him a theme. He was known as the poet laureate of the Confederacy. Only when his region was locked in a desperate military struggle for the right to exist did he suddenly find his enduring voice. Anyone interested in southern life and literature will welcome his provocative and engaging new look at southern writing from one of the region's most perceptive critics.

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