The Mississippi Quarterly articles from March 2000

The Mississippi Quarterly archives from March 2000

Poe and Twain: Cooper Reviewed and Revised.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... DOROTHY PARKER, NOTED WIT AND JOURNALIST, once quipped, "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."(1) With comparable wit and obvious overstatement, Mark Twain concluded that Deerslayer, a novel by...

"How To Win the Jews for Christ": Southern Jewishness and the Southern Baptist Convention(*).
March 22, 2000... WHEN FLANNERY O'CONNOR FAMOUSLY REFERRED to the South as "Christ-haunted," she created a label for the influence that Christianity wields for many Southerners.(1) As Walker Percy asks, "How do you blaspheme in California?"(2) Within Southern...

Impurifying Poe: Robert Penn Warren's Brother to Dragons(*).(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... EARLY IN HIS ARTICLE "PURE AND IMPURE POETRY" (1943), Robert Penn Warren allegorizes the process of interpreting a poem as battling a monster, and claims that "There is only one way to conquer the monster: you must eat it, bones, blood, skin,...

Language at the End of Modernism: Robert Penn Warren's A Plea in Mitigation.
March 22, 2000... I. A CLOSE SURVEY OF THE BREADTH OF Robert Penn Warren's poetry reveals a growing suspicion about the problems of language and speech which eventually led to the redefinition of the poet's aesthetics and a reshaping of his poetics. Even...

Fiction of Mercy: Suffering Delight in Reynolds Price's The Promise of Rest.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2000... For six weeks drawn-out across the republic, Reading scraps of my new AIDS novel To ingratiatingly large clumps of people... I've met--face-on--more men than I'd hoped In near sight of death.... To the worst-off...

"I Prefer To Be Sued If It Would Not Discommode You Too Much": A Lost Samuel Clemens Letter(*).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... SAMUEL CLEMENS, BETTER KNOWN AS MARK TWAIN, was born in 1835 when Halley's Comet burst forth in the sky. A native Missourian, he has historically been perceived as a Southern writer due, among other reasons, to his popular travel book Life on...

The First Meeting of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris.
March 22, 2000... AMONG THE PAGE FAMILY PAPERS, recently acquired by the Virginia Historical Society, is a letter from Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) to his wife of only two years, Anne Seddon Bruce Page (1867-1888), in which he describes his first meeting with...

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, by Annette Gordon-Reed. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997. xxiv, 288 pp. $14.95 paper. THE STORY OF SALLY HEMINGS AND THOMAS JEFFERSON captivates the attention...

Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory and Civic Culture, edited by Jan Ellen Lewis and Peter S. Onuf. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. x, 280 pp. $65.00 cloth. $17.95 paper. THE STORY OF SALLY HEMINGS AND...

The Narrative Forms of Southern Community.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Narrative Forms of Southern Community, by Scott Romine. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. 248 pp. $49.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. COMMUNITY IS A SOUTHERS KEYWORD, and has been since the Agrarian group made it the...

Mark Twain: A Descriptive Guide to Biographical Sources.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Mark Twain: A Descriptive Guide to Biographical Sources, by Jason Gary Horn. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1999. x, 133 pp. $32.50 cloth WRITING IN 1883 ABOUT MARK TWAIN'S NEWLY published Life on the Mississippi, a reviewer for...

Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Making Mark Twain Work in the Classroom, edited by James s. Leonard. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1999. xi, 318 pp. $17.95 paper WRITING IN 1883 ABOUT MARK TWAIN'S NEWLY published Life on the Mississippi, a reviewer for...

Mark Twain.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Mark Twain, by Peter Messent. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. ix, 235 pp. $29.95 cloth WRITING IN 1883 ABOUT MARK TWAIN'S NEWLY published Life on the Mississippi, a reviewer for the Overland Monthly expressed delight that it was not as...

Proper Mark Twain.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Proper Mark Twain, by Leland Krauth. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xvi, 304 pp. $29.95 cloth WRITING IN 1883 ABOUT MARK TWAIN'S NEWLY published Life on the Mississippi, a reviewer for the Overland Monthly expressed delight that...

Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Mark Twain: The Contemporary Reviews, edited by Louis J. Budd. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii, 656 pp. $125.00 cloth. WRITING IN 1883 ABOUT MARK TWAIN'S NEWLY published Life on the Mississippi, a reviewer for the Overland...

Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Afro-Modernist Aesthetics and the Poetry of Sterling A. Brown, by Mark A. Sanders. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xiv, 211 pp. $45.00 Cloth. IF DARWIN TURNER WAS RIGHT TO CLAIM THAT ALL TRAILS in the study of African-American...

Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Charles Olson and Frances Boldereff: A Modern Correspondence, edited by Ralph Maud and Sharon Thesen. Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England, 1999. xviii, 552 pp. $60.00 cloth. $24.95 paper. ...

Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty, edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney. Athens, Georgia: Hill Street Press, 1999. 128 pp. $16.95 cloth THE EARNEST DESIRE EXPRESSED BY ONE WELTY SCHOLAR at a recent conference, to "get...

Understanding Eudora Welty.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Understanding Eudora Welty, by Michael Kreyling. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. 262 pp. $29.95 cloth THE EARNEST DESIRE EXPRESSED BY ONE WELTY SCHOLAR at a recent conference, to "get Welty off the porch" is a desire...

The Late Novels of Eudora Welty.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Late Novels of Eudora Welty, edited by Jan Nordby Gretlund and Karl-Heinz Westarp. Foreword by Reynolds Price. 218 pp. $22.95 cloth. THE EARNEST DESIRE EXPRESSED BY ONE WELTY SCHOLAR at a recent conference, to "get Welty off the porch"...

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes Completed: A Scholarly Text.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes Completed: A Scholarly Text, edited by David Rachels. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. lxvii, 351 pp. $50 cloth. $19.95 paper. GIVEN AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET'S IMPORTANCE in the...

Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, by Gregg Cantrell. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. xiv, 493 pp. $29.95 cloth. THIS BIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN AUSTIN, the founder of Anglo Texas, is a fine piece of scholarship, gracefully written,...

The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges And Sectional Distinctiveness, 1790-1890.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Southern Judicial Tradition: State Judges And Sectional Distinctiveness, 17901890, by Timothy S. Heubner. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. xiii, 263 pp. $45.00 cloth. THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTION SIX PROMINENT judges...

Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Antislavery Violence: Sectional, Racial, and Cultural Conflict in Antebellum America, edited by John R. McKivigan and Stanley Harrold. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999. ix, 322 pp. $30.00 cloth. THIS USEFUL ANTHOLOGY ON THE...

"Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction": Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865.(Review)
March 22, 2000... "Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction": Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865, by Midori Takagi. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index, xi, 187 pp. $37.50 cloth. SINCE...

A Wheel Within a Wheel: Southern Methodism and the Georgia Holiness Association.(Review)
March 22, 2000... A Wheel Within a Wheel: Southern Methodism and the Georgia Holiness Association, by Briane K. Turley. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1999. viii, 226 pp. Bibliography. $35.00 cloth. ALTHOUGH THE FOCUS OF THIS BOOK IS QUITE NARROW,...

Mark Twain: A Literary Life.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Mark Twain: A Literary Life, by Everett Emerson. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. xii, 386pp. $34.95 cloth. EVERETT EMERSON'S NEW BIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN is remarkable chiefly for what it does not do. This engrossing...

Charles W. Chesnutt: A Study of the Short Fiction.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Charles W. Chesnutt: A Study of the Short Fiction, by Henry B. Wonham. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1998. Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction, general editors, Gary Scharnhorst and Eric Haralson. xii, 168 pp. THIS VOLUME SUCCESSFULLY...

The Gullah People and Their African Heritage.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Gullah People and Their African Heritage, by William S. Pollitzer. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999. Illustrations. xxiii, 298 pp. $40.00 cloth. IN 1939, E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER CONTENDED THAT THE HARSH system of American slavery...

Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South, by Bruce Adelson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. Illustrations. 288 pp. $27.95 cloth. OVER THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS OR SO, studying...

Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama: 1915-1949.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949, by Glenn Feldman. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999, xii, 457 pp. $19.95 paper, $49.95 cloth. IN THIS MASSIVE BOOK PROFESSOR FELDMAN SUPPLIES a long-felt need among...

World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor.(Review)
March 22, 2000... World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor, by David M. Robinson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998. 222 pp. $29.95 cloth. EARLY PRAISE FOR A YOUNG WRITER IS INVALUABLE, and few young writers received more early praise...

Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976, edited by Alphonse Vinh with an introduction by Louis D. Rubin,Jr. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. xi, 278 pp. $34.95 cloth. IN HIS INTRODUCTION TO THIS IMPORTANT...

Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of Writers.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of Writers, by Nancy C. Parrish. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. xvii, 234 pp. Photographs. $29.95 cloth. IN THIS THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED AND VERY READABLE STUDY,...