The Mississippi Quarterly articles from December 2000

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from December 2000

Viola Roseboro': a prototype for Cather's My Mortal Enemy.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... THOUGH GREAT FICTION WRITERS SCULPT CHARACTERS we can know more intimately than any who merely walk by us, novelists frequently begin their fictional creations with models suggested by real people. That practice was certainly the habit of such...

Second International Edgar Allan Poe Conference: October 3-6, 2002: Baltimore, Maryland, United States. (Conference announcement).(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Second International Edgar Allan Poe Conference October 3-6, 2002 Baltimore, Maryland, United States The Poe Studies Association, in conjunction with the Poe Society of Baltimore, Goucher College, and the College of Charleston, invites...

Rewriting violence in Eudora Welty's Losing Battles.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... WHEN GLORIA SHORT RENFRO DECLARES IN Losing Battles, "I don't want to be a Beecham!" in response to the family's insistence that they have discovered her real parents, the women of the family respond with violence. They shove her to the ground...

Ellipsis, ritual, and "real time": rethinking the rape complex in Southern novels.
December 22, 2000... IN THE MIND OF THE SOUTH (1941), W.J. Cash defines the "rape complex" that has beset Southern literature for much of the twentieth century as a cultural ritual rather than a criminal act with a perpetrator and a victim. Such an analysis of the...

The original preface * to The Gilded Age resurfaces. (Document).(fictional work by Samuel Clemens and Charles Dudley Warner)(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... THE GILDED AGE WAS A JOINT PROJECT for Samuel Clemens and Charles Dudley Warner, and iii fact it was Clemens's only co-written work of fiction. (1) This commentary on the state of the United States in the 1870s, was an instant success, with an...

Thomas Nelson Page's Sonnet to Amelie Rives *. (Document).
December 22, 2000... IT WOULD SEEM THAT THOMAS NELSON PAGE (1853-1922) and Amelie Louise Rives (1863-1945) had much in common. They were both born in Virginia: Page at Oakland, Hanover County, and Rives at nearby Richmond. They both became prominent: Page as the...

Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing. (A Symposium: Women Writing the South).(Review)
December 22, 2000... Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, by Patricia Yaeger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xvii, 324 pp. $49 cloth. $18.00 paper. PATRICIA MEYER SPACKS University of Virginia IN THIS BRAVE,...

A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World. (Review-essay: the south and books about books).(includes review of 'First Books: The Printed Word and Cultural Formation in Early Alabama' by Philip D. Beidler)(Review)
December 22, 2000... A History of the Book in America, Volume One: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, edited by Hugh Amory and David D. Hall. American Antiquarian Society. Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxiv, 638 pp. $85.00 cloth; First Books: The Printed...

An environmental history of Northeast Florida. (Review-essay: whirlwind tours of the Sunshine State).(includes review of 'Florda's Hurricane History' by Jay Barnes)(Review)
December 22, 2000... An Environmental History of Northeast Florida, by James J. Miller. Florida Museum of Natural History, Ripley P. Bullen Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998. xvi, 223 pp. $49.95 cloth; Florida's Hurricane History, by Jay...

Lonelier than God: Robert Penn Warren and the southern exile. (Review-essay: Robert Penn Warren: the Southern Exile).(includes review of 'The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren' edited by David Madden)(Review)
December 22, 2000... Lonelier than God: Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile, by Randy Hendricks. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xiii, 244 pp. $40.00 cloth; The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren, edited by David Madden with an introduction by James H....

Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the romantic tradition. (Review-essay: Robert Penn Warren: the romantic imagination).(Review)
December 22, 2000... Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition, by Lesa Carnes Corrigan. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xii, 171 pp. $35.00 cloth. $19.95 paper. CONTINUING ITS COMMITMENT TO THE LITERARY...

Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problem of Regionalism. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 22, 2000... Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problem of Regionalism, by Richard Gray. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. 535 pp. $75.00 cloth. $34.95 paper. RICHARD GRAY'S LATEST CONTRIBUTION to the body of...

History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 22, 2000... History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction, by Deborah N. Cohn. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999. x, 248 pp. $39.95 cloth. $19.95 paper. CARLOS FUENTOS ONCE WROTE THAT William Faulkner...

Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 22, 2000... Southern Mothers: Fact and Fictions in Southern Women's Writing, edited by Nagueyalti Warren and Sally Wolff, with a Foreward by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xviii, 233 pp. $39.95 cloth. $19.95...

Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 22, 2000... Black Body: Women, Colonialism, and Space, by Radhika Mohanram. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1999. xx, 250 pp. $44.95 cloth. $17.95 paper. "I HAD TO BE DISLOCATED FROM THE U.S. to become identified as an American, just as I had...

The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930: Settling the Southern Bottomlands. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 22, 2000... The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930: Settling the Southern Bottomlands, by John Solomon Otto. Contributions in American History, No. 183. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999. xii, 208 pp. $59.95 cloth. JOHN SOLOMON OTTO IS A...

Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom. (Book Reviews).(Review)
December 22, 2000... Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom, edited by James S. Leonard. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. 318 pp. $49.95 cloth. $17.95 paper. ANYONE WHO TEACHES MARK TWAIN, and especially his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, will want...