Hearts of Darkness: Wellsprings of a Southern Literary Tradition

(Part of the Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History Series)

by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

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From Edgar Allan Poe's dark fore-bodings to Kate Chopin's lifelong struggle with sorrow and loss, depression has shadowed southern letters. This beautifully realized study explores the defining role of melancholy in southern literature from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth, when it evolved into modernist alienation. While creativity and depression have been linked throughout Western history, Bertram Wyatt-Brown argues that nineteenth-century...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0807128228

ISBN13:9780807128220

Release Date:January 2002

Publisher:Louisiana State University Press

Length:235 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.8" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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