{"product_id":"southern-womens-writing-colonial-to-mary-louise-weaks-9780813014111","title":"Southern Women's Writing, Colonial to Contemporary","description":"\"The southern lady, traditionally depicted as a bloodlessly marmoreal icon, is jostled off her pedestal by living, moving, and, above all, \u003ci\u003espeaking \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ewriting \u003c\/i\u003ewomen, black and white, rich and poor, old and young, in this unique anthology which so pleasurably delineates a long-obscured feminine literary tradition.\"--Veronica Makowsky, University of Connecticut\u003cbr\u003e \"Timely and long overdue. The contribution of women to southern traditions is often undervalued, and gathering them here provides an unmistakable mark of their range and quality. This collection should encourage important reevaluations of southern writing and the contributions of its women authors.\"--Barbara C. Ewell, Loyola University, New Orleans\u003cbr\u003e A problematic relationship forms the core of this anthology--the interwoven lives of southern women. On the one hand, they are linked by gender; on the other, they are divided by racism, class conflict, and sexual politics. As suggested by these selections from both white and African-American women from the early eighteenth to the late twentieth century, their struggles capture the essence and the evolution of the southern woman's voice.\u003cbr\u003e With artistic and historical richness seldom found in literary anthologies, this collection includes letters, journal and diary entries, essays, poetry, and fiction, with an introduction to each historical period and a biography of each author.\u003cbr\u003e While all the writers share the label \"southern woman,\" some test the boundary of that designation. Fanny Kemble, a British actress, moved to the Georgia plantation that her husband inherited; Leigh Allison Wilson, the youngest writer, was born and raised in the South but writes about New York state. However, all authors reflect or refract their personal experience; together their work conveys the range and texture of the literary tradition of the South and of its women writers.\u003cbr\u003e List of writers\u003cbr\u003e THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH\u003cbr\u003e Eliza Lucas Pinckney\u003cbr\u003e Eliza Wilkinson\u003cbr\u003e Anne Newport Royall\u003cbr\u003e Caroline Howard Gilman\u003cbr\u003e Fanny Kemble\u003cbr\u003e Susan Petigru King Bowen\u003cbr\u003e Harriet Jacobs\u003cbr\u003e Frances E. W. Harper\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Grimké\u003cbr\u003e THE CIVIL WAR SOUTH\u003cbr\u003e Mary Boykin Chesnut\u003cbr\u003e Augusta Jane Evans Wilson\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Keckley\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Junkin Preston\u003cbr\u003e THE POSTBELLUM SOUTH\u003cbr\u003e Katherine McDowell\u003cbr\u003e Mary Noailles Murfree\u003cbr\u003e Grace King\u003cbr\u003e Kate Chopin\u003cbr\u003e Julia Mood Peterkin\u003cbr\u003e Alice Dunbar-Nelson\u003cbr\u003e THE MODERN SOUTH\u003cbr\u003e Caroline Gordon\u003cbr\u003e Evelyn Scott\u003cbr\u003e Katherine Anne Porter\u003cbr\u003e Zora Neale Hurston\u003cbr\u003e Carson McCullers\u003cbr\u003e Flannery O'Connor\u003cbr\u003e THE CONTEMPORARY SOUTHEudora Welty\u003cbr\u003e Margaret Walker\u003cbr\u003e Doris Betts\u003cbr\u003e Sonia Sanchez\u003cbr\u003e Mab Segrest\u003cbr\u003e Bobbie Ann Mason\u003cbr\u003e Alice Walker\u003cbr\u003e Ellen Gilchrist\u003cbr\u003e Leigh Allison Wilson\u003cbr\u003e Mary Louise Weaks is associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Rockford College in Illinois. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTalking with Robert Penn Warren\u003c\/i\u003e and author of articles, interviews, and reviews published in \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review, Mississippi Quarterly, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Atlanta Historical Journal. \u003c\/i\u003e Carolyn Perry is assistant professor of English and director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Dolphin Reader.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary Louise Weaks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813014115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813014111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.95h x 5.92w x 1.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/1995 pg. 108","brand":"Mary Louise Weaks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202175156479,"sku":"9780813014111","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_179c1ed2-e8d4-4463-8815-e93b17d2545d.jpg?v=1756819845","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/southern-womens-writing-colonial-to-mary-louise-weaks-9780813014111","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}