The Mississippi Quarterly articles from December 1998

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from December 1998

Biographical Warfare: Silent Film and the Public Image of Poe.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1998... ON FEBRUARY 8, 1909, D.W. GRIFFITH'S Edgar Allen Poe was released to the nation's nickelodeons. Filmed in two days for the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company and rushed to theaters so hurriedly that Poe's name was misspelled, the 450-foot...

"Passion Transfigured": Barren Ground and the New Agriculture.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1998... "Why was it so difficult, she wondered, to bring people to accept either a new idea or a new object?"(1) ELLEN GLASGOW'S BARREN GROUND (1925) REFLECTS a significant early twentieth-century debate over the definition of American...

"Voices in My Own Blood": The Dialogic Impulse in Warren's Nonfiction Writings about Race.(20th-century author Robert Penn Warren)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1998... HALFWAY THROUGH WHO SPEAKS FOR THE NEGRO?, ROBERT Penn Warren describes his observations of Martin Luther King, who is contemplating a question that Warren has just asked him. Warren perceives that King is absorbed in his thoughts: "He no...

The Immolation of Influence: Aesthetic Conflict in Robert Penn Warren's Poetry.(20th-century American author)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1998... There comes a time for us all when we want to begin a new life. All mythologies recognize that fact.(1) ROBERT PENN WARREN'S CAREER AS A POET COVERED more than sixty years and produced some fifteen volumes of verse; clearly, a career so...

The Risks of Membership: Richard Ford's "The Sportswriter."(American author)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 1998... IN THE FIRST TWO SENTENCES OF THE SPORTSWRITER, Richard Ford sets forth the issues with which his novel will be most concerned: a man, his work, his home and sense of place, his relationship with family, and his expectation of "the good life."...

Interview with Lee Smith: May 18, 1997.(North Carilina writer)(Interview)
December 22, 1998... THE FOLLOWING INTERVIEW WITH LEE SMITH TOOK place at her home in Hillsborough, North Carolina, on Sunday, May 18, 1997, about 10:20 a.m. With me was Reta Washam, a friend, fellow writer, and court reporter. Lee's husband, Hal Crowther, met us...

Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable, by Christopher Benfey. New York: Knopf, 1997. xii, 294 pp. $27.50. VERY LIKELY, FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER EDGAR DEGAS would have not...

Kate Chopin: A Study of the Short Fiction.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Kate Chopin: A Study of the Short Fiction, by Bernard Koloski. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996. xvi, 165 pp. $29.00. VERY LIKELY, FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER EDGAR DEGAS would have not regarded New Orleans, where he lived and painted...

Eudora: A Writer's Life.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Eudora: A Writer's Life, by Ann Waldron. New York: Doubleday, 1998. 398 pp. Index. Cloth. $25.95. MAYBE PUBLISHERS, LIKE ELEPHANTS, NEVER forget. More than fifty years ago Eudora Welty left Doubleday, Doran for Harcourt when her editor,...

The Band Played Dixie: Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss.(Review)
December 22, 1998... The Band Played Dixie: Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss, by Nadine Cohodas. New York: The Free Press, 1997. viii, 309 pp. $26.00. OVER THREE DECADES HAVE ELAPSED SINCE OLE MISS WAS desegregated and it is indeed time for a...

The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.(Review)
December 22, 1998... The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson, by Mark G. Malvasi. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xxii, 266 pp. Cloth. $35.00. MUCH OF WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT...

Walker Percy: A Life.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Walker Percy: A Life, by Patrick H. Samway, S.J. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. xxii, 506 pp. $35.00 cloth. WITH THREE CATHOLIC AUTHORS WRITING ABOUT WALKERS Percy, Catholic novelist and philosopher, the reader is on the alert...

At the Crossroads: Ethical and Religious Themes in the Writings of Walker Percy.(Review)
December 22, 1998... At the Crossroads: Ethical and Religious Themes in the Writings of Walker Percy, by John F. Desmond. Troy, New York: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1997. vi, 152 pp. $22.50 cloth. WITH THREE CATHOLIC AUTHORS WRITING ABOUT WALKERS Percy,...

Walker Percy, The Last Catholic Novelist.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Walker Percy, The Last Catholic Novelist, by Kieran Quinlan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1996. xiii, 242 pp. $35.00 cloth. WITH THREE CATHOLIC AUTHORS WRITING ABOUT WALKERS Percy, Catholic novelist and philosopher, the...

A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry.(Review)
December 22, 1998... A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry, by Fred Chappell. New York: Picador USA, 1998. $24.00. Blandword died, and now his ghost Drifts gray through lobby, office, hall. Some mourn diminished presence; most ...

Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, edited by Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson. The American South Series. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. 535 pp. Notes. Index. TO OPEN THE INTRODUCTION TO HAUNTED...

Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change 1700-1835.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835, by Theda Perdue. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 252 pp. $40.00 cloth. THE APPEARANCE OF THIS LONG-AWAITED BOOK BY THEDA Perdue signals a shift in both American Indian...

Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Southern Women in Revolution, 1776-1800: Personal and Political Narratives, by Cynthia A. Kierner. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. xvi, 253 pp. 2 charts. Bibliography. Index. $34.95. SOUTHERN WOMEN IN REVOLUTION...

Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80, by Marli F. Weiner. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. xii, 308 pp. $45.95. IN MISTRESSES AND SLAVES, A MONOGRAPH DERIVED from the author's dissertation at the...

The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia.(Review)
December 22, 1998... The Sacred Flame of Love: Methodism and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, by Christopher H. Owen. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. 290 pp. $50.00. THE SACRED FLAME OF LOVE IS AN ACCOUNT OF METHODISM in Georgia from colonial...

Edgar Allan Poe. Writings in The Southern Literary Messenger: Nonfictional Prose.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Edgar Allan Poe. Writings in The Southern Literary Messenger: Nonfictional Prose, ed. Burton R. Pollin and Joseph V. Ridgely. New York: The Gordian Press, 1997. x, 406 pp. $75.00. THIS FIFTH VOLUME OF THE "COLLECTED WRITINGS OF EDGAR Allan...

Helen Halsey, or The Swamp State of Conelachita.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Helen Halsey, or The Swamp State of Conelachita, by William Gilmore Simms, edited with introduction by John Caldwell Guilds. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1998. xxi, 149 pp. $32.00. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS HAS ADDED TWO...

The Cub of the Panther. A Hunter Legend of the "Old North State".(Review)
December 22, 1998... The Cub of the Panther. A Hunter Legend of the "Old North State," by William Gilmore Simms, edited with Afterword, Historical and Textual Commentary, and Notes by Miriam Jones Shillingsburg. Introduction by John Caldwell Guilds. Fayetteville:...

The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy.(Review)
December 22, 1998... The Burden of Confederate Diplomacy, by Charles M. Hubbard. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xviii, 253 pp. $38.00. COULD CONFEDERATE DIPLOMACY HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB in its mission of securing Confederate independence? Could...

Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas: The Duke Endowment, 1924-1994.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Lasting Legacy to the Carolinas: The Duke Endowment, 1924-1994, by Robert F. Durden. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998. xiv, 386 pp. $55.95. ROBERT F. DURDEN'S TRILOGY ON THE DUKE FAMILY IS NOW complete. The first volume, The...

Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration, by Milton C. Sernett. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997, ix, 345 pp. $18.95. MILTON C. SERNETT IS PROFESSOR OF AFRICAN AMERICAN Studies at Syracuse...

Fighting the Current: The Life and Work of Evelyn Scott.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Fighting the Current: The Life and Work of Evelyn Scott, by Mary Wheeling White. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xv, 256 pp. $35.00. IN FIGHTING THE CURRENT, MARY WHEELING WHITE PROVIDES an illuminating account of the...

"Blues Boy": The Life and Music of B.B. King.(Review)
December 22, 1998... "Blues Boy": The Life and Music of B.B. King, by Sebastian Danchin. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. xii, 156 pp. Notes. Selected Discography. Index. $28.00 cloth. IN "BLUES BOY": THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF B.B. KING, FRENCH...

Conversations with John Edgar Wideman.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Conversations with John Edgar Wideman, edited by Bonnie TuSmith. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. 224 pp. $17.00 paper. BONNIE TUSMITH BRINGS TOGETHER A COMPREHENSIVE ARRAY of "conversations" with John Edgar Wideman in this...

Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Contemporary Southern Men Fiction Writers: An Annotated Bibliography, edited by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman and Suzanne Booker-Canfield. Magill Bibliographies Series. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1998. 427 pp. Index. $55.00. ...

Savory Memories.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Savory Memories, edited by L. Elisabeth Beattie. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xxii, 166 pp. $19.95. IN THIS LIVELY COLLECTION OF BRIEF ESSAYS, TWENTY-TWO Kentucky writers serve up an eclectic banquet of food memories. I'm...