Overview
Few inhabitants of the South in 1800 thought of it as a "region" or of themselves as "southerners." In time, the need to defend the entire southern way of life became obsessive for many writers, too often precluding efforts at originality in form or style. Especially after the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, southern identity and southern nationalism emerged as the grand themes, and literature became subservient to regional interests. The devastation of the Civil War and the collapse of the Co
- | Author: J. V. Ridgely
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Jul 15, 2014
- | Number of Pages: 144 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0813154405
- | ISBN-13: 9780813154404
