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James Everett Kibler
ADVANCE READERS HAVE called The Gentler Gamester "Shakespeare set in a watermelon patch" and "Shakespeare with Spanish moss." The main character, an out of luck young man in Lowcountry Carolina…
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This work explores the continuation of the Classical literary tradition in Southern literature from the Colonial era to the present.
Tiller is set in upcountry South Carolina in the year 2008. Its chief character, who has just turned sixty, is doing what he can to maintain a sane life in…
Faulkner the Southerner is the first biography to place the author in the context of his Southern culture and the continuity of Southern letters.
Karen Stokes
Presents the Civil War correspondence of the Haskells, a prominent family of Abbeville, South Carolina. This outstanding collection of eloquent, compelling letters is unusual in that it includes the correspondence…
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Collects for the first time the nature writing of William and Adam Summer, two of America’s earliest environmental authors. Their essays on sustainable farm practices, reforestation, local food production, soil…
Moltke-Hansen’s introduction to part two examines Simms’s roles in, and responses to, the Romantic critical revolution and the other revolutions then roiling Europe and America.
Maxcy Gregg
SOUTH CAROLINIAN MAXCY GREGG was a lawyer, a classically educated scholar with mastery of many languages, a politician, a veteran of the Mexican-American War, and later a volunteer soldier for…
MAXCY GREGG was a lawyer, a classically educated scholar, a politician, and a volunteer soldier. But his primary interest was the natural world, especially birds. Gregg’s sporting journals chronicles the…
