The Mississippi Quarterly articles from March 1998

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from March 1998

Dickens's Chimes and its pathway into Poe's "Bells" *.(Charles Dickens's "The Chimes", Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells")(Critical essay)
March 22, 1998... A FEW FAINT VOICES, FIFTY OR MORE YEARS AGO, (1) suggested that "The Bells" was derived from Dickens's second Christmas story or Book, separately published in 1844, but Thomas O. Mabbott denied this view in his 1969 edition of the poems. (2)...

Poe, "Simplicity," and Blackwood's Magazine.(Edgar Allan Poe)
March 22, 1998... ALMOST EVERYONE HAS HEARD OR USED THE HACKNEYED PHRASE that something is "elegant in its simplicity." We often use the word simplicity in a variety of contexts, but we make little effort to explain it, assuming that the concept is so very...

Kate Chopin on the Nature of Things (1).(The Awakening as a novel of a human being a higher animal)(Critical essay)
March 22, 1998... CRITICS OF KATE CHOPIN'S THE AWAKENING TEND TO READ the novel as the dramatization of a woman's struggle to achieve selfhood--a struggle doomed to failure either because the patriarchal conventions of her society restrict her freedom, (2) or...

Depression and Chopin's The Awakening.(Kate Chopin)(Critical essay)
March 22, 1998... A SELDOM DISCUSSED MOMENT IN KATE CHOPIN'S THE AWAKENING occurs when Edna Pontellier's father arrives for a visit and is sketched by his daughter: Before her pencil he sat rigid and unflinching, as he had faced the cannon's mouth...

A. B. Meek's great American epic poem of 1855; or, the curious career of The Red Eagle.(Alexander Beaufort Meek)(Critical essay)
March 22, 1998... AT LEAST THREE MAJOR POETIC TEXTS PUBLISHED IN 1855 could claim status as original American epics based on the large-scale treatment of native materials. Of these, surely the best known and most widely appreciated at the time was Henry W....

Interview with Ellen Douglas: February 25, 1997.(Interview)
March 22, 1998... MCCORD: THIS IS CHARLINE MCCORD AND I'M talking with Ellen Douglas at her home at 1225 St. Ann Street in Jackson, Mississippi. With me is Reta Washam, a friend and court reporter. Today is Tuesday, February 25, and it's about 3:00 P.M. I...

Plutarch's Life of Alexander and Joel Chandler Harris's story of "Brother Rabbit, Brother Fox and Two Fat Pullets" (1918).(Critical essay)
March 22, 1998... SCHOLARSHIP CONCERNING JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS'S STORIES of Uncle Remus has focused upon three general areas: their use of folklore, their use of dialect, and their role in the creation or perversion of the "happy darky" myth. (1) Several studies...

Charlotte Capers, Tennessee Williams, and the Mississippi premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire.(Critical essay)
March 22, 1998... PREMIERING ON DECEMBER 3, 1947, ON BROADWAY, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire ran for 855 performances and transformed Marlon Brando, Jessica Tandy, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter into stars. Streetcar was the first play to capture...

White no longer.(Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner)(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner, by Barbara Ladd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xix, 197 pp. $30.00. IN THIS FASCINATING AND IMPORTANT NEW HISTORICIST STUDY, Barbara...

This Land, This South, An Environmental History.(Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America)(Book review)
March 22, 1998... This Land, This South, An Environmental History, revised edition, by Albert E. Cowdrey. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. xiv, 240 pp. $32.95. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, by...

The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, 1514-1861, vol. 1.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: Volume I, 1514-1861, by Lawrence S. Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers, Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. xi, 521 pp. Illustrations. $39.85. SOUTH CAROLINA...

Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1869.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1869, by Christopher Morris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xx, 260 pp. $38.00. LOCAL STUDIES SOMETIMES OPEN AVENUES OF RESEARCH...

A World Turned Upside Down: The Palmers of South Santee 1818-1881.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... A World Turned Upside Down: The Palmers of South Santee 1818-1881, edited by Louis P. Towles. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 1,061 pp. $39.95 cloth. God will work this thing in His own time and way, and my trust is in...

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, by Kathleen M. Brown. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 496 pp. $19.95 paper. KATHLEEN BROWN BEGINS HER SUGGESTIVE...

William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. xvi, 341 pp. Index. $50.00. WILLIAM BARTRAM'S TRAVEL ACCOUNTS HAVE SERVED AS USEFUL...

The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction, by Jeffrey DeShell. Madison and Teaneck, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. 176 pp. $32.50. THIS MONOGRAPH, REALLY A LONG ESSAY that derives from...

Poetry and the Practical.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Poetry and the Practical, by William Gilmore Simms, edited with introduction by James Everett Kibler, Jr. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996. xlv, 124 pp. $24.00. A PRINCIPAL FORCE BEHIND WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS'S surviving...

William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier, edited by John Caldwell Guilds and Caroline Collins. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. xi, 276 pp. $55.00. ALONG WITH JAMES FENIMORE COOPER, WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS is a respected and...

Mark Twain's Letters, 1872-1873, vol. 1.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 5: 1872-1873, edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxxv, 939 pp. $60.00. AFTER A FEW YEARS, WHEN ALL THE REVIEWS OF MARK TWAIN'S Letters: Volume 5 have...

Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U. S. War Against Cuba.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U. S. War Against Cuba, by Tom Chaffin. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, xxii, 282 pp. $34.95. FATAL GLORY, BY TOM CHAFFIN, IS AN ENGAGING NARRATIVE of the...

Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia: The Dark Side of Freedom, 1790-1860.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860: The Dark Side of Freedom, by Tommy L. Bogger. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xiii, 264 pp. $35.00. DURING THE 1790s AND THE FIRST DECADE OF THE NINETEENTH century free...

To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance, by Peter P. Hinks. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 301 pp. $45.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. TWO THEMES...

Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian, by Hans L. Trefousse. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Illustrations. xii, 312 pp. $39.95. HISTORIANS HAVE LONG BEEN FASCINATED BY THE LIFE and work of Thaddeus...

A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt, edited by Thomas D. Cockrell and Michael B. Ballard. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Notes, photographs, index,...

The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy, by William C. Davis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xi, 224 pp. $24.95. WILLIAM C. DAVIS IS ONE OF THE BEST-KNOWN POPULAR historians of the Civil War. The Cause Lost...

State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina, by Richard Zuczek. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. xi, 250 pp. $29.95. OVER THE YEARS, HISTORIANS HAVE PUT FORTH MANY REASONS for the failure of Reconstruction....

Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900, by Gregory A. Wills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 195 pp. $39.95. As PART OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS SERIES on "Religion in...

Cinderella of the New South: A History of the Cottonseed Industry, 1855-1955.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Cinderella of the New South: A History of the Cottonseed Industry, 1855-1955, by Lynette Boney Wrenn. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. xxiv, 280 pp. $38.00. LYNETTE BONEY WRENN'S CINDERELLA of the New South is a major...

Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman, by Margaret Jarman Hagood; introduction by Anne Firor Scott. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. xii, 252 pp. $14.50 paper. FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1939, THIS...

Jimmie Foxx: Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Jimmie Foxx: Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967, by W. Harrison Daniel. Wilmington, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1996. Photographs, notes, bibligoraphy, index, vii, 246 pp. $28.50. JAMES EMORY "JIMMIE" Foxx, THE SUBJECT...

William Edward Dodd: The South's Yeoman Scholar.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... William Edward Dodd: The South's Yeoman Scholar, by Fred Arthur Bailey. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. Bibliography. xiii, 254 pp. $42.50. A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, Fred A. Bailey has...

Remembering James Agee.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Remembering James Agee, 2nd Edition, edited by David Madden and Jeffrey J. Folks. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. 265 pp. $29.95. IN OCTOBER 1972 A SMALL GROUP OF SCHOLARS MET WITH friends, family and literary contemporaries of...

The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell, edited by Robert L. McDonald. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997. xx, 309 pp. $69.50. THOUGH LONG ACKNOWLEDGED A MINOR SOUTHERN AUTHOR, Erskine Caldwell, at the time of his death in...

The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams, edited by George W. Crandell. Westport: Greenwood, 1996. 352 pp. $59.95. PART OF THE CONTINUING SERIES CRITICAL RESPONSE in Arts and Letters, this edition, edited by George W. Crandell, features...

A Goyen Companion: Appreciations of a Writer's Writer.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... A Goyen Companion: Appreciations of a Writer's Writer, edited by Brooke Horvath, Irving Malin, and Paul Ruffin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. 204 pp. $37.50. FOR THE BROWSER OR READER UNACQUAINTED WITH THE WORK of William Goyen,...

Struggling for Wings: The Art of James Dickey.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Struggling for Wings: The Art of James Dickey, edited by Robert Kirschten. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. x, 278 pp. $34.95. WITH THE DEATH OF JAMES DICKEY WE HAVE LOST an entertaining and uncommonly powerful voice for...

Understanding Reynolds Price.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... Understanding Reynolds Price, by James A. Schiff. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. xiv, 218pp. $24.95. AS WITH MANY VOLUMES IN THE SERIES UNDERSTANDING Contemporary American Literature edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, James...

C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics.(Book review)
March 22, 1998... C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics, edited by John Herbert Roper. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. xvii, 347 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. $25.00. THINK OF THE PREEMINENT HISTORIANS OF OUR TIME and the...

Dickens's 'Chimes' and its pathway into Poe's "Bells." (Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe)
March 22, 1998... A few faint voices, fifty or more years ago,(1) suggested that "The Bells" was derived from Dickens's second Christmas story or Book, separately published in 1844, but Thomas O. Mabbott denied this view in his 1969 edition of the poems.(2)...

Poe, "simplicity," and 'Blackwood's Magazine.' (Edgar Allen Poe)
March 22, 1998... Almost everyone has heard or used the hackneyed phrase that something is "elegant in its simplicity." We often use the word simplicity in a variety of contexts, but we make little effort to explain it, assuming that the concept is so very...

Kate Chopin on the nature of things.
March 22, 1998... Critics of Kate Chopin's The Awakening tend to read the novel as the dramatization of a woman's struggle to achieve selfhood--a struggle doomed to failure either because the patriarchal conventions of her society restrict her freedom,(2) or...

Depression and Chopin's 'The Awakening.' (Kate Chopin)
March 22, 1998... A seldom discussed moment in Kate Chopin's The Awakening occurs when Edna Pontellier's father arrives for a visit and is sketched by his daughter: Before her pencil he sat rigid and unflinching, as he had faced the cannon's mouth in...

A.B. Meek's great American epic poem of 1855; or, the curious career of 'The Red Eagle.'
March 22, 1998... At least three major poetic texts published in 1855 could claim status as original American epics based on the large-scale treatment of native materials. Of these, surely the best known and most widely appreciated at the time was Henry W....

Interview with Ellen Douglas: February 25, 1997.(Interview)
March 22, 1998... MCCORD: THIS IS CHARLINE MCCORD AND I'M talking with Ellen Douglas at her home at 1225 St. Ann Street in Jackson, Mississippi. With me is Reta Washam, a friend and court reporter. Today is Tuesday, February 25, and it's about 3:00 P.M. I...

Plutarch's 'Life of Alexander' and Joel Chandler Harris's story of "Brother Rabbit, Brother Fox and Two Fat Pullets" (1918).
March 22, 1998... Scholarship concerning Joel Chandler Harris's stories of Uncle Remus has focused upon three general areas: their use of folklore, their use of dialect, and their role in the creation or perversion of the "happy darky" myth.(1) Several studies...

Charlotte Capers, Tennessee Williams, and the Mississippi premiere of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.' (critic, playwright)
March 22, 1998... Premiering on December 3, 1947, on Broadway, Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire ran for 855 performances and transformed Marion Brando, Jessica Tandy, Karl Malden, and Kim Hunter into stars. Streetcar was the first play to capture all...

Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner.
March 22, 1998... Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner, by Barbara Ladd. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xix, 197 pp. $30.00. IN THIS FASCINATING AND IMPORTANT NEW HISTORICIST STUDY, Barbara...

This Land, This South: An Environmental History.
March 22, 1998... This Land, This South, An Environmental History, revised edition, by Albert E. Cowdrey. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. xiv, 240 pp. $32.95. Two quotations from these two books implicate both the Mississippi River and the South...

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America.
March 22, 1998... Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America, by John M. Barry. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. Illustrations. 524 pp. $27.50. Two quotations from these two books implicate both the Mississippi River and the...

The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina, vol. 1: 1514-1861.
March 22, 1998... The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina: Volume I, 1514-1861, by Lawrence S. Rowland, Alexander Moore, and George C. Rogers, Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. xi, 521 pp. Illustrations. $39.85. South carolina is a...

Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1869.
March 22, 1998... Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1869, by Christopher Morris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xx, 260 pp. $38.00. Local studies sometimes open avenues of research leading...

A World Turned Upside Down: The Palmers of South Santee, 1818-1881.
March 22, 1998... A World Turned Upside Down: The Palmers of South Santee 1818-1881, edited by Louis P. Towles. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. 1,061 pp. $39.95 cloth. God will work this thing in His own time and way, and my trust is in...

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia.
March 22, 1998... Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia, by Kathleen M. Brown. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 496 pp. $19.95 paper. Katttleen Brown begins her suggestive yet...

William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians.
March 22, 1998... William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians, edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. xvi, 341 pp. Index. $50.00. William Bartram's travel accounts have served as useful...

The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction.
March 22, 1998... The Peculiarity of Literature: An Allegorical Approach to Poe's Fiction, by Jeffrey DeShell. Madison and Teaneck, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. 176 pp. $32.50. This monograph, really a long essay that derives from a...

Poetry and the Practical.
March 22, 1998... Poetry and the Practical, by William Gilmore Simms, edited with introduction by James Everett Kibler, Jr. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1996. xlv, 124 pp. $24.00. A PRINCIPAL FORCE BEHIND WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS'S surviving...

William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier.
March 22, 1998... William Gilmore Simms and the American Frontier, edited by John Caldwell Guilds and Caroline Collins. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. xi, 276 pp. $55.00. Along with James Fenimore Cooper, William Gilmore Simms is a respected and...

Mark Twain's Letters, vol. 5: 1872-1873.
March 22, 1998... Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 5: 1872-1873, edited by Lin Salamo and Harriet Elinor Smith. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. xxxv, 939 pp. $60.00. After a few years, when all the reviews of Mark Twain's Letters: Volume 5 have...

Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba.
March 22, 1998... Fatal Glory: Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U. S. War Against Cuba, by Tom Chaffin. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996, xxii, 282 pp. $34.95. Fatal Glory, by Tom Chaffin, Is an engaging narrative of the...

Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860: The Dark Side of Freedom.
March 22, 1998... Free Blacks in Norfolk, Virginia, 1790-1860.' The Dark Side of Freedom, by Tommy L. Bogger. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xiii, 264 pp. $35.00. During the 1790s and the first decade of the nineteenth century free black...

To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance.
March 22, 1998... To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren: David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave Resistance, by Peter P. Hinks. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.301 pp. $45.00 cloth; $17.95 paper. Two themes dominate...

Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian.
March 22, 1998... Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth Century Egalitarian, by Hans L. Trefousse. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Illustrations. xii, 312 pp. $39.95. Historians have long been fascinated by the life and work of Thaddeus Stevens,...

A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt.
March 22, 1998... A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt, edited by Thomas D. Cockrell and Michael B. Ballard. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. Notes, photographs, index,...

The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy.
March 22, 1998... The Cause Lost: Myths and Realities of the Confederacy., by William C. Davis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xi, 224 pp. $24.95. William C. Davis is one of the best-known popular historians of the Civil War. The Cause Lost deals...

State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina.
March 22, 1998... State of Rebellion: Reconstruction in South Carolina, by Richard Zuczek. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. xi, 250 pp. $29.95. Over the years, historians have put forth many reasons for the failure of Reconstruction....

Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900.
March 22, 1998... Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900, by Gregory A. Wills. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. xii, 195 pp. $39.95. As part of the oxford university press seines on "Religion in...

Cinderella of the New South: A History of the Cottonseed Industry, 1855-1955.
March 22, 1998... Cinderella of the New South: A History of the Cottonseed Industry, 1855-1955, by Lynette Boney Wrenn. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. xxiv, 280 pp. $38.00. Lynette Boney Wrenn's Cinderella of the New South is a major...

Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman.
March 22, 1998... Mothers of the South: Portraiture of the White Tenant Farm Woman, by Margaret Jarman Hagood; introduction by Anne Firor Scott. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. xii, 252 pp. $14.50 paper. First published in 1939, this book...

Jimmie Foxx: Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967.
March 22, 1998... Jimmie Foxx: Baseball Hall of Famer, 1907-1967, by W. Harrison Daniel. Wilmington, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1996. Photographs, notes, bibligoraphy, index, vii, 246 pp. $28.50. James Emory "Jimmie" Foxx, the subject of...

William Edward Dodd: The South's Yeoman Scholar.
March 22, 1998... William Edward Dodd: The South's Yeoman Scholar, by Fred Arthur Bailey. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. Bibliography. xiii, 254 pp. $42.50. A PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT ABILENE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, Fred A. Bailey has written...

Remembering James Agee, 2nd ed.
March 22, 1998... Remembering James Agee, 2nd Edition, edited by David Madden and Jeffrey J. Folks. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. 265 pp. $29.95. In October 1972 a small group of scholars met with friends, family and literary contemporaries of...

The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell.
March 22, 1998... The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell, edited by Robert L. McDonald. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1997. xx, 309 pp. $69.50. Though long acknowledged a minor Southern author, Erskine Caldwell, at thc time of his death in 1987,...

The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams.
March 22, 1998... The Critical Response to Tennessee Williams, edited by George W. Crandell. Westport: Greenwood, 1996. 352 pp. $59.95. PART OF THE CONTINUING SERIES CRITICAL RESPONSE in Arts and Letters, this edition, edited by George W. Crandell, features...

A Goyen Companion: Appreciation of a Writer's Writer.
March 22, 1998... A Goyen Companion: Appreciations of a Writer's Writer, edited by Brooke Horvath, Irving Malin, and Paul Ruffin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. 204 pp. $37.50. FOR THE BROWSER OR READER UNACQUAINTED WITH THE WORK of William Goyen, the...

Struggling for Wings: The Art of James Dickey.
March 22, 1998... Struggling for Wings: The Art of James Dickey, edited by Robert Kirschten. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. x, 278 pp. $34.95. With the death of James Dickey we have LOST an entertaining and uncommonly powerful voice for...

Understanding Reynolds Price.
March 22, 1998... Understanding Reynolds Price, by James A. Schiff. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996. xiv, 218pp. $24.95. As with many volumes in the series Understanding Contemporary American Literature edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, James A....

C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics.
March 22, 1998... C. Vann Woodward: A Southern Historian and His Critics, edited by John Herbert Roper. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. xvii, 347 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. $25.00. Think of the preeminent historians of our time and the name...