The Mississippi Quarterly articles from December 1997

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from December 1997

Nature as sacrament in Walker Percy's The Second Coming.
December 22, 1997... WALKER PERCY'S THE SECOND COMING CHRONICLES Will Barrett's attempts to defeat his suicidal "self sucking everything into itself," (1) a self that has assumed the stereotypical roles of a retired wealthy American businessman putting around the...

The union of the DeBardeleben and Percy families.
December 22, 1997... Esperance en Dieu (1) NO UNDERSTANDING OF WALKER PERCY, THE NOVELIST, can be complete without a knowledge of the DeBardeleben family, mainly because the union of the DeBardelebens and Percys insured that Walker Percy initially be given,...

The making of a historian: Robert Penn Warren's biography of John Brown.
December 22, 1997... And still they come, these young iconoclasts, aflame with crusading zeal and bent on telling the oldsters where they get off with their historical hero-worshipping. (1) To topple an idol from its pedestal was not enough; the idol must be...

"The curious psychological spectacle of a mind enslaved": Charles W. Chesnutt and dialect fiction.
December 22, 1997... IT HAS BEEN FASHIONABLE FOR SOME TIME TO CELEBRATE Charles Chesnutt's defiance of a hegemonic publishing industry, governed by figures like William Dean Howells, Waiter Hines Page, and Richard Watson Gilder, all of whom conspired--or so the...

"Old Beaux and Young Beaux": an unpublished social satire by Mary Noailles Murfree.
December 22, 1997... "OLD BEAUX AND YOUNG BEAUX" IS AN UNPUBLISHED ESSAY by Mary Noailles Murfree, a regionalist most widely recognized for her first book, In the Tennessee Mountains. In tone and subject matter, "Old Beaux and Young Beaux" is similar to Murfree's...

An angel in the plantation: the economics of slavery and the politics of literary domesticity in Caroline Lee Hentz's The Planter's Northern Bride.
December 22, 1997... THE RAPID DETERIORATION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN the North and the South of the United States in the 1850s gave rise to an increasing call for women to take part publicly in political issues long denied to them. The publication of Harriet Beecher...

Kalamu ya Salaam: a primary bibliography (in progress).(Bibliography)
December 22, 1997... CONTEMPORARY TECHNOLOGIES DO MORE THAN affect how we conceptualize and gain access to new knowledge. They have begun to have a telling impact on how we regard the knowledge we possess, let us say, about the history and continuing production of...

Walker Percy: three studies.(Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and Redemption)(A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Lane Ketner and Walker Percy)(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and Redemption, by Edward J. Dupuy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, 27.50; A Thief of Peirce." The Letters of Kenneth Lane Ketner and Walker Percy, ed. Patrick H. Samway,...

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: biennial competition.
December 22, 1997... The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) announces its biennial competition for the best published article dealing with any aspect of American history between 1865 and 1917. The article must have appeared in...

The South in landscapes.(Southern Landscapes)(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Southern Landscapes, ed. Tony Badger, Walter Edgar, and Jan Nordby Gretlund. Tubingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1996. xxiv, 277 pp. Paper. WHILE SOUTHERN STUDIES HAS, IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, always been concerned with the cultural,...

The Southern Robert Mills.(Altogether American: Robert Mills, Architect and Engineer, 1781-1855)(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Altogether American: Robert Mills, Architect and Engineer, 1781-1855, by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. $45.00. THIS, THE SEVENTH BOOK-LENGTH STUDY OF MILLS, surveys the whole of his impressive...

Southern Writers and Their Worlds.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Southern Writers and Their Worlds, edited by Christopher Morris and Steven G. Reinhart. Introduction by Michael O'Brien. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1996. 162 pp. $24.95. SOUTHERN WRITERS AND THEIR WORLDS IS A COLLECTION...

"What Nature Suffers to Groe": Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... "What Nature Suffers to Groe": Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920, by Mart A. Stewart. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix, 370 pp. $45.00. MART STEWART'S STUDY OF THE INTERACTION OF ENVIRONMENT...

Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry, edited with an introduction by Darlene Harbour Unrue. University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 204 pp. $24.95. ANYONE WONDERING IF KATHERINE ANNE PORTER is a poet need look no farther than the final...

Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews, by Jack Nelson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. 287 pp. $16.00. THIS FAST-PACED NARRATIVE BY A PULITZER-PRIZE WINNING journalist focuses on the violence aimed at...

Mud on the Stars.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Mud on the Stars, by William Bradford Huie. Introduction by Don Noble. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996. xxv, 341 pp. $22.95 paper. IN MY SOUL Is RESTED, HOWELL RAINES, in a preface to his interview with William Bradford Huie,...

For Us the Living.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... For Us the Living, by Myrlie Evers with William Peters. Introduction by Willie Morris. Jackson: Banner Books/University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xvii, 378 pp. $13.95 paper. FOR US THE LIVING, WRITTEN BY MYRLIE EVERS with William Peters,...

Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta, by Ronald H. Bayor. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 334 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index....

From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1964-1994.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1964-1994, by Dan T. Carter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xv, 134 pp. $22.95. DAN CARTER, EMORY UNIVERSITY'S DISTINGUISHED CHRONICLER...

The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, by Robert Mann. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1996. 609 pp. $32.00. THIS VOLUME PROVIDES A DETAILED, WELL-WRITTEN account of...

Every Tub Must Sit On Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Every Tub Must Sit On Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston, by Deborah G. Plant. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 214 pp. $25.95. BY FOCUSING ON WORKS OTHER THAN Their Eyes Were Watching...

American Labor On Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... American Labor On Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s, by Susan Duffy. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. 156 pp. Bibliography, index. $55.00. THIS BOOK ANALYZES FOUR CONTROVERSIAL...

Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike, by John A. Salmond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiv, 226 pp. Illustrations, preface, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. OTHERS HAVE TOLD THE STORY OF THE 1929...

What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955, by Timothy J. Minchin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. vii, 285 pp. $45.00. "THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1945 AND 1955 WAS CLEARLY A GOOD ONE for southern textile...

A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas, by Jeannie M. Whayne. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996. xvi, 324 pp. $39.50 cloth. ARKANSAS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, WHEN COMPARED...

The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872.(Book review)
December 22, 1997... The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872, by Lou Falkner Williams. Studies in the Legal History of the South, edited by Paul Finkelman and Kermit L. Hall. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xiii, 197 pp. $35.00. IN...

Nature as sacrament in Walker Percy's 'The Second Coming.'
December 22, 1997... Walker Percy's The Second Coming chronicles Will Barrett's attempts to defeat his suicidal "self sucking everything into itself,"(1) a self that has assumed the stereotypical roles of a retired wealthy American businessman putting around the...

The union of the Debardeleben and Percy families. (family of Walker Percy)
December 22, 1997... Esperance en Dieu(1) No understanding of Walker Percy, the novelist, can be complete without a knowledge of the DeBardeleben family, mainly because the union of the DeBardelebens and Percys insured that Walker Percy initially be given,...

The making of a historian: Robert Penn Warren's biography of John Brown. ('John Brown: The Making of a Martyr.')
December 22, 1997... And still they come, these young iconoclasts, aflame with crusading zeal and bent on telling the oldsters where they get off with their historical hero-worshipping.(1) To topple an idol from its pedestal was not enough; the idol must be hacked...

"The curious psychological spectacle of a mind enslaved": Charles W. Chesnutt and dialect fiction.
December 22, 1997... It has been fashionable for some time to celebrate Charles Chesnutt's defiance of a hegemonic publishing industry, governed by figures like William Dean Howells, Walter Hines Page, and Richard Watson Gilder, all of whom conspired--or so the...

"Old Beaux and Young Beaux": an unpublished social satire by Mary Noailles Murfree.
December 22, 1997... "Old Beaux and Young Beaux" is an unpublished essay by Mary Noailles Murfree, a regionalist most widely recognized for her first book, In the Tennessee Mountains. In tone and subject matter, "Old Beaux and Young Beaux" is similar to Murfree's...

An angel in the plantation: the economics of slavery and the politics of literary domesticity in Caroline Lee Hentz's 'The Planter's Northern Bride.'
December 22, 1997... The rapid deterioration of relations between the North and the South of the United States in the 1850s gave rise to an increasing call for women to take part publicly in political issues long denied to them. The publication of Harriet Beecher...

Kalamu ya Salaam: a primary bibliography (in progress).
December 22, 1997... Contemporary technologies do more than affect how we conceptualize and gain access to new knowledge. They have begun to have a telling impact on how we regard the knowledge we possess, let us say, about the history and continuing production of...

Autobiography in Walker Percy: Reception, Recovery, and Redemption.
December 22, 1997... Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and Redemption, by Edward J. Dupuy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996, $27.50; These three investigations of Walker Percy are totally different, all valuable, and together...

A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Lane Ketner and Walker Percy.
December 22, 1997... A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Lane Ketner and Walker Percy, ed. Patrick H. Samway, S. J. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995, $45.00; These three investigations of Walker Percy are totally different, all valuable, and...

Still Following Percy.
December 22, 1997... Still Following Percy, by Lewis A. Lawson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996, $37.50. These three investigations of Walker Percy are totally different, all valuable, and together serve as an indication of the vibrancy of current...

Southern Landscapes.
December 22, 1997... Southern Landscapes, ed. Tony Badger, Walter Edgar, and Jan Nordby Gretlund. Tubingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1996. xxiv, 277 pp. Paper. While Southern studies has in one way or another, always been concerned with the cultural, social,...

Altogether American : Robert Mills, Architect and Engineer, 1781-1855.
December 22, 1997... Altogether American: Robert Mills, Architect and Engineer, 1781-1855, by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. $45.00. This, the seventh book-length study of Mills, surveys the whole of his impressive achievement,...

Southern Writers and Their Worlds.
December 22, 1997... Southern Writers and Their Worlds, edited by Christopher Morris and Steven G. Reinhart. Introduction by Michael O'Brien. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1996. 162 pp. $24.95. Southern Writers and Their Worlds is a collection of...

"What Nature Suffers to Groe": Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920.
December 22, 1997... "What Nature Suffers to Groe": Life, Labor, and Landscape on the Georgia Coast, 1680-1920, by Mart A. Stewart. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xix, 370 pp. $45.00. Mart Stewart's study of the interaction of environment and...

Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry.
December 22, 1997... Katherine Anne Porter's Poetry, edited with an introduction by Darlene Harbour Unrue. University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 204 pp. $24.95. Anyone wondering if Katherine Anne Porter is a poet need look no farther than the final paragraph...

Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews.
December 22, 1997... Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews, by Jack Nelson. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996. 287 pp. $16.00. This fast-paced narrative by a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist focuses on the violence aimed at...

Mud on the Stars.
December 22, 1997... Mud on the Stars, by William Bradford Huie. Introduction by Don Noble. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1996. xxv, 341 pp. $22.95 paper. In My Soul is Rested, Howell Raines, in a preface to his interview with William Bradford Huie,...

For Us the Living.
December 22, 1997... For Us the Living, by Myrlie Evers with William Peters. Introduction by Willie Morris. Jackson: Banner Books/University Press of Mississippi, 1996. xvii, 378 pp. $13.95 paper. For Us the Living, Written by Myrlie Evers with William Peters, is...

Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta.
December 22, 1997... Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta, by Ronald H. Bayor. The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 334 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index....

From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1964-1994.
December 22, 1997... From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1964-1994, by Dan T. Carter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xv, 134 pp. $22.95. Dan Carter, Emory University's Distinguised Chronicler of...

The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights.
December 22, 1997... The Walls of Jericho: Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Russell, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, by Robert Mann. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1996. 609 pp. $32.00. This volume provides a detailed, well-written account of the...

Every Tub Must Sit On Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston.
December 22, 1997... Every Tub Must Sit On Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston, by Deborah G. Plant. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995. 214 pp. $25.95. By focusing on works other than Their Eyes Were Watching God,...

American Labor On Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s.
December 22, 1997... American Labor On Stage: Dramatic Interpretations of the Steel and Textile Industries in the 1930s, by Susan Duffy. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. 156 pp. Bibliography, index. $55. 00. This book analyzes four controversial...

Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike.
December 22, 1997... Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Shike, by John A. Salmond. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. xiv, 226 pp. Illustrations, preface, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95. Others have told the story of the 1929...

What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955.
December 22, 1997... What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955, by Timothy J. Minchin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. vii, 285 pp. $45.00. "The period between 1945 and 1955 was clearly a good one for southern textile...

A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas.
December 22, 1997... A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas, by Jeannie M. Whayne. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1996. xvi, 324 pp. $39.50 cloth. Arkansas at the turn of the century, when compared to...

The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872.
December 22, 1997... The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872, by Lou Falkner Williams. Studies in the Legal History of the South, edited by Paul Finkelman and Kermit L. Hall. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xiii, 197 pp. $35.00. In...