The Mississippi Quarterly articles from March 1993

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from March 1993

The Politics of Narration: James Joyce, William Faulkner and Virginia Wolfe.
March 22, 1993... When Rene Wellek and Austin Warren published their seminal Theory of Literature in 1949 literary criticism and theory were in a state of interpretive innocence. The authors revealingly entitled section Ill "The Extrinsic Approach to the Study...

Gestures of Healing: Anxiety and the Modern Novel.
March 22, 1993... When Rene Wellek and Austin Warren published their seminal Theory of Literature in 1949 literary criticism and theory were in a state of interpretive innocence. The authors revealingly entitled section Ill "The Extrinsic Approach to the Study...

Fictions of Capital: The American Novel from James to Mailer.
March 22, 1993... When Rene Wellek and Austin Warren published their seminal Theory of Literature in 1949 literary criticism and theory were in a state of interpretive innocence. The authors revealingly entitled section Ill "The Extrinsic Approach to the Study...

In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture.
March 22, 1993... When W. E. B. Dubois prefaced The Souls of Black Folk (1903) with the assertion that the "problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line," he hit upon a formulation which has seemed more powerfully prophetic the longer the...

A Southern Omnibus: Contemporary Short Fiction and Poetry, vol. 1, Made Things: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry.
March 22, 1993... Probably with disdain and possibly even with contempt, we can look back to our counterparts of a century ago and say, "Shame on you! Two of the greatest poets of your age have just died - Dickinson in 1886 and Hopkins in 1889 - and who among...

A Southern Omnibus: Contemporary Short Fiction and Poetry, vol. 2, Stories: Contemporary Southern Short Fiction.
March 22, 1993... Probably with disdain and possibly even with contempt, we can look back to our counterparts of a century ago and say, "Shame on you! Two of the greatest poets of your age have just died - Dickinson in 1886 and Hopkins in 1889 - and who among...

Cleanth Brooks: An Annotated Bibliography.
March 22, 1993... Literary criticism as we know it is largely a product of the twentieth century. Although general principles and specific judgments have been debated since classical antiquity, heated arguments over critical methodology seem peculiar to our...

Celia: A Slave.
March 22, 1993... These two historical studies which contribute to our knowledge of the lives of women of color in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century South differ widely in focus and scope. McLaurin's Celia offers readers a detailed study of the trial of a...

Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879.
March 22, 1993... These two historical studies which contribute to our knowledge of the lives of women of color in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century South differ widely in focus and scope. McLaurin's Celia offers readers a detailed study of the trial of a...

Sentimental Modernism: Women Writers and the Revolution of the Word.
March 22, 1993... At first glance, these three books appear to merit little consideration as a group except for their focus on women's writing in America. Aside from sharing the obvious characteristics of gender and nationality, the writers discussed create...

Female Pastoral: Women Writers Re-visioning the American South.
March 22, 1993... At first glance, these three books appear to merit little consideration as a group except for their focus on women's writing in America. Aside from sharing the obvious characteristics of gender and nationality, the writers discussed create...

Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton.
March 22, 1993... At first glance, these three books appear to merit little consideration as a group except for their focus on women's writing in America. Aside from sharing the obvious characteristics of gender and nationality, the writers discussed create...

The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction.
March 22, 1993... Peter Schmidt's The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction provides a happy confluence (to use a word Eudora Welty loves) of lucid analysis, painstaking research, theoretical savvy, and personal engagement. Like Welty's fiction, it is...

The Comic Genius of Dr. Alexander Hamilton.
March 22, 1993... The three volumes under review offer several different views of Southern humor. The first is a study of a Maryland colonist whose reputation as a comic writer began only two centuries after his death; the second is a collection of essays on...

Faulkner, Sut, and Other Southerners: Essays in Literary History.
March 22, 1993... The three volumes under review offer several different views of Southern humor. The first is a study of a Maryland colonist whose reputation as a comic writer began only two centuries after his death; the second is a collection of essays on...

On Humor: The Best from American Literature.
March 22, 1993... The three volumes under review offer several different views of Southern humor. The first is a study of a Maryland colonist whose reputation as a comic writer began only two centuries after his death; the second is a collection of essays on...

Mark Twain's Letters, vol. 3, 1869.
March 22, 1993... Without strirring from our base, we can now read all the currently available (188) letters that Mark Twain wrote between January 1 and December 28, 1869, mostly published for the first time, though "published" is too shopworn a term for this...

Getting to Be Mark Twain.
March 22, 1993... Without strirring from our base, we can now read all the currently available (188) letters that Mark Twain wrote between January 1 and December 28, 1869, mostly published for the first time, though "published" is too shopworn a term for this...

The Sagebrush Bohemian: Mark Twain in California.
March 22, 1993... Without strirring from our base, we can now read all the currently available (188) letters that Mark Twain wrote between January 1 and December 28, 1869, mostly published for the first time, though "published" is too shopworn a term for this...

Classics of Civil War Fiction.
March 22, 1993... This collection of essays by various hands covers fourteen books of fiction written on the war - all novels except Ambrose Bierce's Tales (189l) - including "the era of causes before and the era of effects afterward" (p. 10), from John W....

Witness to Sorrow: The Antebellum Autobiography of William J. Grayson.
March 22, 1993... William J. Grayson (1788-1863), known chiefly today as the author of the long neoclassical poem The Hireling and the Slave (1855), appears in this ably edited volume in new guise, as an accomplished, intelligent autobiographer. An unusual and...

Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood.
March 22, 1993... Nearly thirty years after his untimely death, Randall Jarrell's poetry continues to polarize even his most devoted readers. James Dickey set the parameters in 1956 by splitting Jarrell's readers into two diametrically opposed factions, A & B....

A Scholar's Conscience: Selected Writings of J. Saunders Redding.
March 22, 1993... In her introduction to A Scholar's Conscience Faith Berry laments that though To Make a Poet Black and The Lonesome Road still garner critical interest today "during a time of increased African-American awareness and cultural identity, [J....

The Adaptable South: Essays in Honor of George Brown Tindall.
March 22, 1993... GEorge Brown Tindall, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for over forty years, has been one of the pre-eminent historians of the South and one of the foremost trainers of Southern historians since World War...

A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier.
March 22, 1993... In 1844, frontierswoman Marianne Gaillard compared her new life in Mississippi with her old one in South Carolina and concluded that "God brought us here to bring us down in the world" (p. 93). Joan E. Cashin's sensitive study of pioneer...

A Quest for Glory: Major General Robert Howe and the American Revolution.
March 22, 1993... Charles E. Bennett and Donald R. Lennon have filled a noticeable void in Revolutionary history with the first full biographical treatment of Robert Howe, North Carolina's highest ranking Revolutionary officer and, at the war's end, the seventh...

The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family.
March 22, 1993... There is no doubt that Paul C. Nagel is today one of America's more respected and better-known historians. With a record of publications dating back almost thirty years now, he has spent a lifetime studying the period from the Revolution to the...

The Papers of Jefferson Davis, vol. 7, 1861.
March 22, 1993... Since the founding of our republic, the year 1861 stands as the great dividing line in American history. Jefferson Davis stood in the center of the events that would determine the future of the united States, and this volume of his papers for...

The Southern Country Editor.
March 22, 1993... The title of this book is misleading. It is much more than the history of Southern country newspapers and the role of their editors. Rather, the book offers a most generous slice of Southern society and thought following the Civil War through...

A dialogue with Gail Godwin. (Interview)
March 22, 1993... After two years of writing my dissertation, "The Evolving Self: Gail Godwin's Novels as Contemporary Bildungsroman," after corresponding with Godwin, and after a brief phone conversation, I finally had the opportunity to meet her in Woodstock,...

Poe and Frances Osgood, as linked through "Lenore."
March 22, 1993... All accounts of the Della Cruscan poetic exchanges and of the highly publicized "year-long" relationship of Poe and Mrs. Frances Sargent Osgood seem to concentrate on the beginning of 1845. Poe then started his climb to the co-editorship of the...

Art is an unnatural act: Mademoiselle Reisz in 'The Awakening.'
March 22, 1993... Kate Chopin's The Awakening has become a classic feminist text, most often read for its devastating portrait of Victorian marriage and the discovery of the protagonist, Edna Pontellier, of her talent, her sexuality, and her sense of self. From...

The rhetoric of exhaustion and the exhaustion of rhetoric: Erskine Caldwell in the thirties.
March 22, 1993... I The South in which Erskine Caldwell Sets his major fictional and nonfictional writings of the 1930s is a region which is literally exhausted. The land itself, always an irreducible material and political fact in Caldwell, has been...

Racial oppression and alienation in Richard Wright's "Down by the Riverside" and "Long Black Song."
March 22, 1993... Much of Wright's fiction has generally been regarded as existential rather than naturalistic. It is a well-established fact that Wright lived and wrote The Outsider, the most existential of his novels, in France, where he maintained close...

Rewriting Southern male introspection in Josephine Humphreys' 'Dreams of Sleep.'
March 22, 1993... The introspective male has become a character type in Southern fiction. Quintessentially, he is Quentin Compson of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! but his heirs include, among others, Robert Penn Warren's Jack Burden and...

Tennessee Williams sends his autobiography to Mexico.
March 22, 1993... Like almost everything else Tennessee Williams wrote, his short autobiographical sketch, "Facts About Me," presents a tangled bibliographic history. Most individuals know about this brief (1167-word) article from reading it in Williams's Where...