{"product_id":"the-underground-stream-nancylee-novell-jonza-9780820336268","title":"The Underground Stream: The Life and Art of Caroline Gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis biography offers the most complete and accurate portrait to date of the writer Caroline Gordon (1895-1981). Viewing Gordon's life in the context of female literary tradition, Nancylee Novell Jonza reclaims Gordon's integrity, individuality, and artistic vision from beneath a self-effacing, sometimes detractive, public image carefully fostered by the artist herself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGordon's nine novels and three short-story collections are a major contribution in their own right to the southern literary renaissance. Despite an enduring readership, however, she still remains in the shadow of her husband, Allen Tate, the Fugitive Poet and Agrarian critic, partially due to her contrived persona of a traditional southern lady turned artist under the tutelage of a gifted, benevolent male writer. Drawing on manuscript drafts, unpublished works, letters, and a significant body of her journalistic writing, Jonza investigates fully the causes and effects of Gordon's self-mythologizing and covers substantially more ground than the thirty years during which she was closest to Tate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA little-known Caroline Gordon emerges from \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Stream\u003c\/i\u003e. Her readers are sure to reach a deeper understanding of such aspects of Gordon's life and her art as her family's strong matriarchal tradition, her difficulties with pregnancy and motherhood, her conversion to Catholicism, her alcoholism, and her role within a sometimes destructive relationship with Allen Tate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancylee Novell Jonza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820336262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820336268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.12d","brand":"Nancylee Novell Jonza","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47425086980351,"sku":"9780820336268","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9703233-192d-4eba-9b3c-70232fdc5f5a.jpg?v=1761536918","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-underground-stream-nancylee-novell-jonza-9780820336268","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}