Recent Southern Studies

Daniel Joseph Singal. The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.453 + xvi pp. Marcelle Thiebaux. Ellen Glasgow. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1982. 222 + xiii pp. Linda W. Wagner. Ellen Glasgow: Beyond Convention. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. 150 + x pp. Floyd C. Watkins. Then and Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. 184 + xii pp. As a native Midwesterner who has lived half his life below the Mason-Dixon Line, I have often wondered why my present home claims an indigenous regional literature and my old one does not. Although it frequently has been contended that the South has produced a disproportionately large number of gifted modern writers, that boast does not hold up to scrutiny. Of the figures included in Jackson R. Bryer's Sixteen Modern American Authors, six (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Anderson, Hart Crane and Eliot) spent their formative years in the Midwest, and six (Frost, Stevens, Pound, Williams, O'Neill and Robinson) in the Northeast. With only two writers (Faulkner and Wolfe), the South is tied with the Far West (Steinbeck and Cather) for last place. Even if we enlarged and updated Bryer's consensus list, it is doubtful that the relative position of the South would improve

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