Fred Hobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 148078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fred Hobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fred |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobson |
| SIGNATURE | HOBSON F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 7 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Richard Weaver, Lillian Smith, the South, and the World
The Dying Confession of Joseph Hare
Literary and Textual Histories of the Native South
Jackson’s Villes, Squares, and Frontiers of Democracy
The Long Shadow of Torture in the American South
Southern Affects
The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South
"The Oxford Handbook to the Literature of the U.S. South brings together contemporary views of the literature of the U.S. South in a series of essays employing critical tools not traditionally used in approaching southern literature. It assumes ideas of the South-global, multicultural, plural: more Souths than South-that would not have been embraced two or three decades ago, and it similarly expands the idea of literature itself"
Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U. S. South
Freedom as Moral Agency
The idea of freedom, or wiathi, lay at the centre of political and moral discussion around the time of Mau Mau. But what did this idea of freedom entail? This article focuses attention on the need to reconstruct what was understood by wiathi by concentrating on the particular context in which the term was used. It is suggested that wiathi denotes an idea of freedom as moral agency, which confers authority to act within the community and makes one…
The South in Black and White
Journal Article The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s. By McKay Jenkins. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii, 215 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2491-7. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4771-7.) Get access Fred Hobson Fred Hobson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, …
But Now I See
But Now I See
Journal Article But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative. By Fred Hobson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xvi, 159 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-8071-2384-6. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8071-2410-9.) Get access Thomas A. Underwood Thomas A. Underwood Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2,…
But Now I See
Mencken
Mencken
The Problem of American Realism
The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
T. S. Stribling
With All My Might
Dreiser-Mencken Letters
Politicians, Poets, and Con Men
From Fact to Fiction
South-Watching
Tell about the South
Telling about the South on Paper and Canvas
Freedom as Moral Agency
The idea of freedom, or wiathi, lay at the centre of political and moral discussion around the time of Mau Mau. But what did this idea of freedom entail? This article focuses attention on the need to reconstruct what was understood by wiathi by concentrating on the particular context in which the term was used. It is suggested that wiathi denotes an idea of freedom as moral agency, which confers authority to act within the community and makes one…
But Now I See
Serpent in Eden
Journal Article Serpent in Eden: H. L. Mencken and the South. By Fred C. Hobson, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1974. xv + 242 pp. Illustration, notes, bibliography, and index. $8.95.) Get access Carl Dolmetsch Carl Dolmetsch College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 3, December 1974, Pages 823–825, https://doi.org/10.23…
Serpent in Eden
appearance in 1920 of H. L. Mencken's scathing essay about the intellectual and cultural impoverishment of the South, The Sahara of the Bozart, set off a firestorm of reaction in the region that continued unabated for much of the next decade. In Serpent in Eden, Mencken scholar Fred Hobson examines Mencken's love-hate relationship with the South. He explores not only Mencken's savage criticism of the region but also his efforts to encourage south…
Serpent in Eden
The People's Voice
Telling about the South on Paper and Canvas
Tell About the South
Tell about the South
South-Watching
Tell about the South
From Fact to Fiction
Politicians, Poets, and Con Men
With All My Might
Dreiser-Mencken Letters
T. S. Stribling
The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
The Problem of American Realism
Mencken
Mencken
But Now I See
But Now I See
Journal Article But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative. By Fred Hobson. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. xvi, 159 pp. Cloth, $30.00, ISBN 0-8071-2384-6. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8071-2410-9.) Get access Thomas A. Underwood Thomas A. Underwood Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2,…
But Now I See
The South in Black and White
Journal Article The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s. By McKay Jenkins. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xii, 215 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8078-2491-7. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4771-7.) Get access Fred Hobson Fred Hobson University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, …
Freedom as Moral Agency
The idea of freedom, or wiathi, lay at the centre of political and moral discussion around the time of Mau Mau. But what did this idea of freedom entail? This article focuses attention on the need to reconstruct what was understood by wiathi by concentrating on the particular context in which the term was used. It is suggested that wiathi denotes an idea of freedom as moral agency, which confers authority to act within the community and makes one…
Richard Weaver, Lillian Smith, the South, and the World
The Dying Confession of Joseph Hare
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