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The Mississippi Quarterly articles from September 1999
A quarterly referred journal of culture of the southern United States. Articles include historical analysis, literary criticism, and original research. Published by Mississippi State University.
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The Mississippi Quarterly archives from September 1999
Edgar Allan Poe as a Major Influence upon Allen Ginsberg.
September 22, 1999... Part 1. Introduction
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997) HAD GREAT AND WIDESPREAD influence in the nineteen fifties to seventies as a leader of "The Beats." He was their eloquent bard, especially through Howl & Other Poems (1956) and Kaddish and...
A Seductive Plea from the Gallows: Reconsidering William Gilmore Simms's Martin Faber.
September 22, 1999... REMINISCENT OF JAMES HOGG's Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) and the forerunner to Edgar Allan Poe's "William Wilson" (1837),(1) William Gilmore Simms's Martin Faber (1833) illustrates thoroughly the complex, psychological dimensions of...
Slaveries "In the Borders": Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills" in Its Southern Context.
September 22, 1999... IN THE WAKE OF CECELIA TICHI'S BEDFORD CULTURAL EDITION of Life in the Iron Mills,(1) any attempt to resituate Davis in her social and cultural milieu runs the risk of appearing immediately redundant. To date we have achieved, however, only a...
Withdrawals and Returns in a Page of Anne Tyler (Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, pp. 270-272): Embers Glowing Under the Ashes(*).
September 22, 1999... Introduction
THE PASSAGE UNDER CONSIDERATION COMES FROM the penultimate chapter (ch. 9) of Anne Tyler's Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), which I had read cursorily--the easy readability of Tyler's writing, makes this only too...
An Interview with James Wilcox: January 1997(*).
September 22, 1999... JAMES WILCOX, WHO HAS LIVED MOST OF THE LAST TWENTY-FIVE years in New York City, was born and raised in the small town of Hammond, where for many years his father was a Professor of Music at Southeastern Louisiana University. The elder Wilcox...
Quotation and Authority: A Note on Caroline Gordon's Green Centuries.(Review)
September 22, 1999... ONE OF THE CONCLUDING PARAGRAPHS OF Caroline Gordon's novel Green Centuries (1941) apparently borrows heavily from Bulfinch's Mythology. Gordon's text has the protagonist Rion pondering the death of his mythical namesake, Orion:
One...
A Symposium: The Business of Inventing the South.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Inventing Southern Literature, by Michael Kreyling. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. xviii, 200 pp. $17.00 paper.
NINA BAYM University of Illinois at Urbana
MICHAEL KREYLING TEACHES SOUTHERN LITERATURE in a Southern...
Competing Voices: The American Novel 1865-1914.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865-1914, by Susan V. Donaldson. New York: Twayne, 1998. xxviii, 220 pp. $33.00 cloth.
IN COMPETING VOICES, SUSAN V. DONALDSON DESCRIBES the years between 1865 and 1914 as a period of "turbulent...
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, by Charles Hudson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1997. xxiv, 566 pp. Notes. Illustrations. Maps. $34.95 cloth;
THESE TWO VOLUMES ARE PART OF...
The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiograhy, and "Discovery" in the Southeast.(Review)
September 22, 1999... The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiograhy, and "Discovery" in the Southeast, edited by Patricia Galloway. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xvi, 464 pp. Notes. Illustrations. Tables. $60.00 cloth.
THESE TWO VOLUMES...
Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South 1700-1835.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835, by Cynthia A. Kierner. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1998. xii, 295 pp. $55.00 cloth. $18.00 paper.
FOR MUCH TOO LONG, THE NATION'S AND THE region's written...
Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South, by Janet Duitsman Cornelius. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. x, 305 pp. $34.95.
THIS VOLUME IS ANOTHER ENTRY INTO THE SUBSTANTIAL body of recent literature on...
Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Nat Turner Before the Bar of Judgment: Fictional Treatments of the Southampton Slave Insurrection, by Mary Kemp Davis. The Southern Literary Studies Series. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xiv, 298 pp. $30.00.
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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes Completed: A Scholarly Text.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes Completed: A Scholarly Text, by David Rachels. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998. lxvii, 351 pp.
ALTHOUGH RANKED BY ALLEN TATE AS standing alongside Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at the...
Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Writing the Civil War: The Quest to Understand, edited by James M. McPherson and William J. Cooper, Jr. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998. 356 pp. Notes. Index. $29.95 cloth.
IN WRITING THE CIVIL WAR JAMES M. MCPHERSON and...
National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men.(Review)
September 22, 1999... National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men, by Dana D. Nelson. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
DANA D. NELSON ARGUES IN HER EXTENSIVELY RESEARCHED and theoretically sophisticated book that an...
Designs Against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Designs Against Charleston: The Trial Record of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822, edited with an introduction by Edward A. Pearson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xvi, 387 pp. $49.95 cloth.
DENMARK VESEY...
Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A.R. Ammons and James Dickey.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Approaching Prayer: Ritual and the Shape of Myth in A.R. Ammons and James Dickey, by Robert Kirschten. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. 177 pp. $30.00 cloth.
"myth is a narrated story,... ritual is the performance of...