Selected Bibliography for the Study of

Modern/Contemporary Southern Literature and Culture

[Please send recommendations for additions to Rob McDonald, English & Fine Arts, VMI]

Anthologies

Abbott, Dorothy, and Susan Koppelman, ed. Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories. New York: Signet, 1991.

Andrews, William L., et al., ed. The Literature of the American South. New York: Norton, 1998.

Ayers, Edward L., and Bradley C. Mittendorf, ed. The Oxford Book of the American South: Testimony, Memory, and Fiction. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.

Dixon, Michael Bigelow, and Michele Volansky, ed. By Southern Playwrights: Plays from the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1996.

Forkner, Ben, and Patrick Samway, ed. A Modern Southern Reader: Major Stories, Drama, Poetry, Essays, Interviews, and Reminiscences from the Twentieth-Century South. Atlanta: Peachtree, 1996.

-----, ed. Stories of the Modern South. New York: Penguin, 1995.

Jones, Suzanne W., ed. Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature. New York: Mentor, 1991.

Mee, Susie, ed. Downhome: An Anthology of Southern Women Writers. New York: Harvest, 1995.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr., ed. The Literary South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1979.

Tyler, Anne, ed. Best of the South: From Ten Years of NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1996.

General Bibliographies

Bain, Robert, and Joseph M. Flora, ed. Contemporary Poets, Dramatists, Essayists, and Novelists of the South: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.

Flora, Joseph M., and Robert Bain, ed. Fifty Southern Writers after 1900: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1987.

Jordan, Casper LeRoy. A Bibliographical Guide to African-American Women Writers. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.

General Critical Works

Applebome, Peter. Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics, and Culture. New York: Times Books, 1996.

Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life after Reconstruction. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.

Bassett, John E., ed. Defining Southern Literature: Perspectives and Assessments, 1831-1952. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1997.

Berry, J. Bill, ed. Located Lives: Place and Idea in Southern Autobiography. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990.

Bradbury, John M. The Fugitives: A Critical Account. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1958.

-----. Renaissance in the South: A Critical History of the Literature, 1920-1960. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1963.

Bradford, M. E. Generations of the Faithful Heart: On the Literature of the South. LaSalle, IL: Sherwood Sugden, 1983.

Brantley, Will. The Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1993.

Brooks, Cleanth. "The Modern Southern Poet and Tradition." Virginia Quarterly Review 11 (1935): 305-320.

-----. "Regionalism in American Literature." Journal of Southern History 26 (1960): 33-43.

-----. "Southern Literature: The Wellsprings of Its Vitality." Georgia Review 16 (1962): 238-253.

Bryant, J. A., Jr. Twentieth-Century Southern Literature. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1997.

Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South. 1941. New York: Vintage, 1969.

Castille, Philip, and William Osborne, ed. Southern Literature in Transition: Heritage and Promise. Memphis: Memphis State UP, 1983.

Ching, Barbara, and Gerald W. Creed, ed. Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Conklin, Paul. The Southern Agrarians. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1988.

Cobb, James C. "Community and Identity: Redefining Southern Culture." Georgia Review 50.1 (Spring 1996): 9-24.

-----. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.

-----. The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1930-1990. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993.

Cobb, James C., and Charles R. Wilson, ed. Perspectives on the American South. Vol. 4. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1987.

Cook, Sylvia Jenkins. From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1976.

Cooper, William J., Jr., and Thomas E. Terrill. The American South: A History. New York: Knopf, 1990.

Core, George, ed. Southern Fiction Today: Renascence and Beyond. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1969.

Couch, William T., ed. Culture in the South. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1934.

Cowan, Louise. "The Communal World of Southern Literature." Georgia Review 14 (1960). 248-257.

-----. The Fugitive Group: A Literary History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1959.

Daniell, Rosemary. Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South. New York: Holt, 1980.

Davidson, Donald. "The Southern Poet and His Tradition." Poetry 40 (May 1932): 94-103.

Dillman, Caroline Matheny, ed. Southern Women. New York: Hemispheric Publishing Co., 1989.

Dunbar, Tony. Delta Time: A Journey through Mississippi. New York: Pantheon, 1990.

Egerton, John. The Americanization of Dixie: The Southernization of America. New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.

Gaston, Paul M. The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking. New York: Knopf, 1970.

Genovese, Eugene D. The Southern Tradition: The Achievement and Limitations of an American Conservatism. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994.

Goldfield, David R. Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture, 1940 to the Present. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1990.

Gossett, Louise Y. Violence in Recent Southern Fiction. Durham: Duke UP, 1965.

Grantham, Dewey W. The South in Modern America: A Region at Odds. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

Gray, Richard. The Literature of Memory: Modern Writers of the American South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1977.

Griffin, Larry J., and Don H. Doyle, ed. The South as an American Problem. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1995.

Hall, B. C., and C. T. Wood. The South. New York: Scribner, 1995.

Hobson, Fred. Tell about the South: The Southern Rage to Explain. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1983.

Hummer, T. R. "Ex Machina: Reading the Mind of the South." Southern Review

Humphries, Jefferson, and John Lowe, ed. The Future of Southern Letters. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Justus, James H. "Southern Modernism and the Battle of Literary Succession." Southern Literary Journal 27 (Fall 1994): 6-17.

Ketchin, Susan, ed. The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994.

King, Richard. A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening of the American South, 1930-1955. New York: Oxford UP, 1980.

King, Richard, and Helen Taylor, ed. Dixie Debates: Perspectives on Southern Cultures. New York: New York UP, 1996.

Kirby, Jack Temple. Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination. Rev. ed. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1986.

Kreyling, Michael. Figures of the Hero in Southern Narrative. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1987.

Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. New York: Knopf, 1991.

Maguire, Merrill. The Folk of Southern Fiction. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1972.

Malvasi, Mark G. The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1997.

Manning, Carol S. The Female Tradition in Southern Literature. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1993.

Mayfield, Chris, ed. Growing Up Southern: Southern Exposure Looks at Childhood, Then and Now. New York: Pantheon, 1981.

McIlwaine, Shields. The Southern Poor-White from Lubberland to Tobacco Road. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1939.

Murchison, Claudius T. King Cotton is Sick. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1930.

O'Brien, Michael. The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1979.

-----. Rethinking the South: Essays in Intellectual History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1988.

Ownby, Ted. Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, & Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1990.

Polk, Noel. Outside the Southern Myth. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1997.

Powell, Dannye Romine, ed. Parting the Curtains: Voices of the Great Southern Writers. New York: Anchor, 1995.

Pratt, William. "The Place of the South in Contemporary Literature." South Carolina Review 25.1 (Fall 1992): 116-126.

Reed, John Shelton. The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society. New York: Heath, 1972.

-----. Southern Folk Plain and Fancy: Native White Social Types. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1986.

-----. My Tears Spoiled My Aim and Other Reflections on Southern Culture. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1993.

-----. Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1990.

Reed, John Shelton, and Dale Volberg Reed. 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about the South. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr., ed. The American South: Portrait of a Culture. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980.

-----. A Gallery of Southerners. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1982.

-----. The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets and the South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1978.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr., and Robert D. Jacobs, ed. South: Modern Southern Literature in Its Cultural Setting. Garden City, NJ: Dolphin, 1961.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr., and James Jackson Kilpatrick, ed. The Lasting South. New York: Regnery, 1957.

Rubin, Louis D., Jr., et al., ed. The History of Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1985.

Scott, Anne Firor. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930. Rev. ed. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1995.

Simpson, Louis P. The Brazen Face of History: Studies in the Literary Consciousness of America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980.

-----. The Dispossessed Garden: Pastoral and History in Southern Literature. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1975.

Smith, Lee (text), and Shelby Lee Adams (photos). Appalachian Portraits. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994.

Sullivan, Walter. Death by Melancholy: Essays on Modern Southern Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1973.

Tate, Linda. A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1994.

Twelve Southerners. I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. 1930. New York: Harper Torchbook, 1962.

Watson, Charles. The History of Southern Drama. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1997.

Weaver, Richard. The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought. 1968. Washington: Regnery, 1989.

Wiggins, William H., Jr., and Douglas Natalae, ed. Jubilation: African American Celebrations in the Southeast. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1994.

Williamson, J. W., and Edwin T. Arnold, ed. Interviewing Appalachia: The Appalachian Journal Interviews, 1978-1992. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1994.

Wilson, Charles Reagan, and William Ferris, ed. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1989.

Woodward, C. Vann. The Burden of Southern History. 3rd ed. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1993.

-----. "Why the Southern Renaissance?" Virginia Quarterly Review 51 (1975): 227-229.

Wray, Matt, and Annalee Newitz. White Trash: Race and Class in America. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Yelen, Alice Rae. Passionate Visions of the American South: Self-Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994.

Young, Thomas Daniel. The Past in the Present: A Thematic Study of Modern Southern Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1981.

Zinn, Howard. The Southern Mystique. New York: Knopf, 1964.

Special Issues

Harry Crews. Southern Quarterly (Summer 1998).

Cultural Conflict in Contemporary Southern Fiction (Ed. Victor A. Kramer). Studies in the Literary Imagination 27.2 (Fall 1994).

Zora Neale Hurston. Southern Quarterly (Spring 1998).

On the Culture of the American South: Essays Celebrating the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the

Popular/American Culture Association in the South (Ed. Dennis Hall). Studies in Popular Culture 29.2 (October 1996).

Race and Ethnicity (Ed. Stephen Flinn Young). Southern Quarterly 35.3 (Spring 1997).

Readin' Country Music: Steel Guitars, Opry Stars, and Honky Tonk Bars (Ed. Cecilia Tichi). South Atlantic Quarterly 94.1 (Winter 1995).

Southern Humor (Ed. John Shelton Reed). Southern Cultures 1.4 (Summer 1995).

Southern Novelists on Stage and Screen (Ed. George Garrett, David Madden, and Irving Malin). Southern Quarterly 33.2-3 (Winter-Spring 1995).

Women and Men (Ed. Stephen Flinn Young). Southern Quarterly 33.1 (Fall 1994).

Works on Individual Authors

Dorothy Allison

Campbell, Jennifer. "Teaching Class: A Pedagogy and Politics for Working-Class Writing." College Literature 23.2 (1996): 116-131.

Jetter, Alexis. "The Roseanne of Literature." New York Times Magazine 17 Dec. 1995: 54.

Megan, Carolyn E. "Moving Toward Truth: An Interview with Dorothy Allison." Kenyon Review 16 (Fall 1994): 71-84.

Reynolds, David. "White Trash in Your Face: The Literary Descent of Dorothy Allison." Appalachian Journal 29.4 (Summer 1993): 360-361.

Ross, Ann M. "White Trash: Dorothy Allison and the Construction of the Working Class Subject." San Francisco State U: M.A. Thesis, 1993.

Sandell, Jillian. "Telling Stories of 'Queer White Trash': Race, Class, and Sexuality in the Works of Dorothy Allison." White Trash: Race and Class in America. Ed. Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz. New York: Routledge, 211-230.

Strom, Linda. "Reclaiming Our Working-Class Identities: Teaching Working-Class Studies in a Blue-Collar Community." Women's Studies Quarterly 23.1-2 (Spring-Summer 1995): 131-142.

Erskine Caldwell

Arnold, Edwin T., ed. Conversations with Erskine Caldwell. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1988.

-----, ed. Erskine Caldwell Reconsidered. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1990.

Cook, Sylvia Jenkins. Erskine Caldwell and the Fiction of Poverty: The Flesh and the Spirit. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1991.

Klevar, Harvey L. Erskine Caldwell: A Biography. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1994.

MacDonald, Scott., ed. Critical Essays on Erskine Caldwell. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1981.

McDonald, Robert L., ed. The Critical Response to Erskine Caldwell. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.

Miller, Dan B. Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road. New York: Knopf, 1995.

Mixon, Wayne. The People's Writer: Erskine Caldwell and the South. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1995.

Harry Crews

Gann, Daniel H. "Harry Crews: A Bibliography." Bulletin of Bibliography 39 (Sept. 1982): 139-145.

Jeffrey, David K., ed. Grit's Triumph: Essays on the Works of Harry Crews. New York: Associated Faculty Presses, 1983.

Lytal, Tammy, and Richard R. Russell. "Some of Us Do It Anyway: An Interview with Harry Crews." Georgia Review 48 (Fall 1994): 536-553.

Schafer, William J. "Partial People: The Novels of Harry Crews." Mississippi Quarterly 41 (Winter 1987-1988): 69-88.

Shelton, Frank W. "Harry Crews: Man's Search for Perfection." Southern Literary Journal 12.2 (Spring 1980): 97-113.

James Dickey

Calhoun, Richard J., ed. James Dickey: The Expansive Imagination. Deland, FL: Everett-Edwards, 1973.

Calhoun, Richard J., and Robert W. Hill. James Dickey. Boston: Twayne, 1983.

Elledge, Jim. James Dickey: A Bibliography, 1947-1974. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1979.

Kirschten, Robert. James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy of Earth: A Reading of the Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1988.

Price, Reynolds. "James Dickey, Size XL." New York Times Book Review 23 March 1997: 31.

Weigl, Bruce, and T. R. Hummer, ed. The Imagination as Glory: The Poetry of James Dickey. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1984.

William Faulkner

Bassett, John Earl. Faulkner: An Annotated Checklist of Recent Criticism. Kent: Kent State UP, 1983.

Brooks, Cleanth. William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country. New Haven: Yale UP, 1963.

Clarke, Deborah. Robbing the Mother: Women in Faulkner. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994.

Inge, M. Thomas, ed. William Faulkner: The Contemporary Reviews. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994.

Jones, Diane Brown. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of William Faulkner. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1995.

Kartiganer, Donald M., and Ann J. Abadie, ed. Faulkner and Psychology. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994.

-----. Faulkner and Ideology. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1995.

Roberts, Diane. Faulkner and Southern Womanhood. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1994.

Schwartz, Lawrence H. Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1988.

Vanderwerken, David L. Faulkner's Literary Children: Patterns of Development. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

Weinstein, Philip M., ed. The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner. New York: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Williamson, Joel. William Faulkner and Southern History. New York: Oxford UP, 1993.

Bryant, Jerry H. "Ernest J. Gaines: Change, Growth, and History." Southern Review 10 (1974): 851-874.

-----. "From Life to Death: The Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines." Iowa Review 3 (Winter 1972): 106-120.

Fabre, Michel. "Bayonne or the Yoknapatawpha of Ernest Gaines." Callaloo 1 (May 1978): 1101-124.

McDonald, Walter R. "'You Not a Bum, You a Man': Ernest J. Gaines's Bloodline." Negro American Literature Forum 9 (Summer 1975): 47-49.

Shelton, Frank W. "Ambiguous Manhood in Ernest J. Gaines's Bloodline." CLA Journal 19 (December 1975): 200-209.

Beth Henley

Harbin, Billy J. "Familial Bonds in the Plays of Beth Henley." Southern Quarterly 25.3 (1987): 81-94.

Hargrove, Nancy D. "The Tragicomic Vision of Beth Henley's Drama." Southern Quarterly 22.4 (1984): 54-70.

Jaehne, Karen. "Beth's Beauties." Film Comment 25.3 (May 1989): 9-15.

McDonald, Robert L. "'A blaze of glory': Image and Self-Promotion in Beth Henley's The Miss Firecracker Contest." Forthcoming in the Southern Quarterly.

McDonnell, Lisa J. "Diverse Similitude: Beth Henley and Marsha Norman." Southern Quarterly 25.3 (1987): 95-104.

Shepard, Alan Clarke. "Aborted Rage in Beth Henley's Women." Modern Drama 39 (1993): 96-108.

Whited, Lana A. "Suicide in Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart and Marsha Norman's 'night, Mother." Southern Quarterly 36 (Fall 1997): 65-74.

Cormac McCarthy

Jarrett, Robert L. Cormac McCarthy. New York: Twayne, 1997.

Bell, Vereen M. The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1988.

Flannery O'Connor

Baumbach, Jonathan. "The Acid of God's Grace: The Fiction of Flannery O'Connor." Georgia Review 17 (Fall 1963): 334-346.

Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr. The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1989.

Di Renzo, Anthony. American Gargoyles: Flannery O'Connor and the Medieval Grotesque. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.

Hendin, Josephine. The World of Flannery O'Connor. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1970.

Johansen, Ruthann Knechel. The Narrative Secret of Flannery O'Connor: The Trickster as Interpreter. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1993.

Koon, William. "'Help Me Not to Be So Mean': Flannery O'Connor's Subjectivity." Southern Review 15 (1979): 322-332.

Rath, Sura P., and Mary Neff Shaw, ed. Flannery O'Connor: New Perspectives. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1995.

Shinn, Thelma J. "Flannery O'Connor and the Violence of Grace." Contemporary Literature 9.1 (1968): 58-73.

Whitt, Margaret Earley. Understanding Flannery O'Connor. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1995.

William Styron

Cologne-Brooks, Gavin. The Novels of William Styron: From Harmony to History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1994.

Ross, Daniel W., ed. The Critical Response to William Styron. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.

Allen Tate

Ferman, Bishop. Allen Tate. New York: Twayne, 1967.

Hammer, Langdon. Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.

"Homage to Allen Tate: Essays, Notes, and Verses in Honor of His Sixtieth Birthday." Sewanee Review 67 (Summer 1959): 528-631.

Squires, Radcliffe. Allen Tate and His Work: Critical Evaluations. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1972.

Stewart, John L. The Burden of Time: The Fugitives and Agrarians: The Nashville Groups of the 1920s and 1930s, and the Writing of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1965.

Thorp, Willard. "Allen Tate: A Checklist." Princeton University Library Chronicle 3 (Spring 1942): 85-98.

Peter Taylor

Blum, Morgan. "Peter Taylor: Self-Limitation in Fiction." Sewannee Review 70 (Autumn 1962): 559-578.

Griffith, Albert J. Peter Taylor. New York: Twayne, 1970.

McAlexander, Hubert H. Critical Essays on Peter Taylor. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1993.

Pinkerton, Jan. "The Non-Regionalism of Peter Taylor." Georgia Review 24 (Winter 1974): 432-440.

Williamson, Alan. "Identity and Wider Eros: A Reading of Peter Taylor's Stories." Shenandoah 30 (Fall 1978): 71-84.

Alice Walker

Bloom, Harold, ed. Alice Walker: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1990.

Campbell, Jennifer. "Teaching Class: A Pedagogy and Politics for Working-Class Writing." College Literature 23.2 (1996): 116-131.

Pratt, Louis H. Alice Malsenior Walker: An Annotated Bibliography, 1968-1986. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1988.

Winchell, Donna Haisty. Alice Walker. New York: Twayne, 1992.

Robert Penn Warren

Ferriss, Lucy. Sleeping with the Boss: Female Subjectivity and Narrative Pattern in Robert Penn Warren. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1997.

Ruppersburg, Hugh M. Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990.

Stewart, John L. The Burden of Time: The Fugitives and Agrarians: The Nashville Groups of the 1920s and 1930s, and the Writing of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1965.

Strandberg, Victor H. A Colder Fire: The Poetry of Robert Penn Warren. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1965.

Eudora Welty

Carlson, Barbara Harrell. "Eudora Welty's Heart of Darkness, Heart of Light." South Central Review 4 (Spring 1987): 106-122.

Champion, Laurie, ed. The Critical Response to Eudora Welty's Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.

Davis, Charles E. "The South in Eudora Welty's Fiction: A Changing World." Studies in American Fiction 3.2 (1975): 199-209.

Gretlund, Jan Nordby. Eudora Welty's Aesthetics of Place. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1994.

Kreyling, Michael. Eudora Welty's Achievement of Order. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980.

Mortimer, Gail L. Daughter of the Swan: Love and Knowledge in Eudora Welty's Fiction. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1994.

Pingatore, Dina. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Eudora Welty. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1995.

Polk, Noel, ed. Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1994.

Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman, ed. Conversations with Eudora Welty. New York: Washington Square, 1985.

Thompson, Victor H. Eudora Welty: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1976.

Weston, Ruth D. Gothic Traditions and Narrative Techniques in the Fiction of Eudora Welty. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP. 1994.

Tennessee Williams

Falk, Signi. Tennessee Williams. 2nd ed. Boston: Twayne, 1978.

Griffin, Alice. Understanding Tennessee Williams. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1994.

Hayman, Ronald. Tennessee Williams: Everyone Else is an Audience. New Haven: Yale UP, 1994.

Leverich, Lyle. Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams. New York: Crown, 1995.

McDonald, Robert L. "'By instinct': The Problem of Identity in The Glass Menagerie." CEA Critic 59.3 (Spring/Summer 1997): 58-64.

Phillips, Gene D. The Films of Tennessee Williams. Philadelphia: Art Alliance P, 1980.

Roudane, Matthew Charles. The Cambridge Companion to Tennessee Williams. New York: Cambridge UP, 1997.

Tharpe, Jac, ed. Tennessee Williams: A Tribute. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1977.

Tischler, Nancy. Tennessee Williams: Rebellious Puritan. New York: Citadel, 1965.

Yocawar, Maurice. Tennessee Williams and Film. New York: Ungar, 1977.

Richard Wright

Bloom, Harold, ed. Richard Wright: Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea House, 1987.

Butler, Robert J. The Critical Response to Richard Wright. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.

Fabre, Michael. The World of Richard Wright. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1985.

Hakutani, Yoshinobu, ed. Critical Essays on Richard Wright. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982.

Kinnamon, Keneth, and Michel Fabre, ed. Conversations with Richard Wright. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1993.

Kinnamon, Keneth, ed. A Richard Wright Bibliography: Fifty Years of Criticism and Commentary, 1933-1982. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1988.

Trotman, C. James, ed. Richard Wright: Myths and Realities. New York: Garland, 1988.

Webb, Constance. Richard Wright: A Biography. New York: Putnam, 1968.

Williams, John A. The Most Native of Sons: A Biography of Richard Wright. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970.

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