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- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Mapping the Figurative South
- 1 Region, Genre, and the Nineteenth-Century South
- 2 Slave Narratives and Neo-Slave Narratives
- 3 Literature and the Civil War
- 4 Literature and Reconstruction
- 5 Southern Verse in Poetry and Song
- 6 Southern Modernists and Modernity
- 7 Poverty and Progress
- 8 The Southern Renaissance and the Faulknerian South
- 9 Southern Women Writers and Their Influence
- 10 Hollywood Dreaming:
- 11 Civil Rights Fiction
- 12 Southern Drama
- 13 Queering the Region
- 14 Immigrant Writers:
- Further Reading
- Index
9 - Southern Women Writers and Their Influence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction: Mapping the Figurative South
- 1 Region, Genre, and the Nineteenth-Century South
- 2 Slave Narratives and Neo-Slave Narratives
- 3 Literature and the Civil War
- 4 Literature and Reconstruction
- 5 Southern Verse in Poetry and Song
- 6 Southern Modernists and Modernity
- 7 Poverty and Progress
- 8 The Southern Renaissance and the Faulknerian South
- 9 Southern Women Writers and Their Influence
- 10 Hollywood Dreaming:
- 11 Civil Rights Fiction
- 12 Southern Drama
- 13 Queering the Region
- 14 Immigrant Writers:
- Further Reading
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South , pp. 132 - 145Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013