Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
I: THE ORIGINS OF SOUTHERN LITERARY MELANCHOLY
1 Alienation and Art
II: SECTIONALISM, WAR, DEFEAT
2 Literary Fire-Eaters: A Culture of Failure
3 The Golden Goal Unachieved
4 The English Malady in Southern Poetry
III: SUBVERSIVE HUMOR, MELANCHOLY DUALITIES
5 The Little Shop Girl's Sad Knight
6 The Trickster Motif and Disillusion
IV: THE IMPACT OF FEMALE WRITERS
7 Lowering Birds at the Dawn of Modernism
8 A Female Southern Renaissance
Index
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