This work explores the continuation of the Classical literary tradition in Southern literature from the Colonial era to the present. It contrasts American writing outside the South which attacked or consciously undermined the Classics with a Southern literature that staunchly adhered to the eternal verities of the Classical tradition. The work treats both major and minor Southern writers throughout her four centuries. This continued influence is responsible for the global interest in Southern literature.

The Classical Origins of Southern Literature

Literature & Fiction

Kibler, James Everett

History & Criticism

Abbeville Institute, Ltd.

Faulkner the Southerner is the first biography to place the author in the context of his Southern culture and the continuity of Southern letters. Doing so helps prevent glaring misreadings of his fiction. It explores Faulkner's humor, sense of honor, rootedness in place, criticism of the machine culture and racial attitudes. It treats Faulkner the raconteur, successful farmer, sensitive preservationist, conservative, and Southern traditionalist.

Faulkner the Southerner and the Continuity of Southern Letters

This is the second edition of the first book-length treatment of the South's veneration of the classics and how it has distinguished her literature and culture for four centuries. In this much enlarged second edition, Kibler includes authors from the colonial era through James Dickey to broaden his finding. This new edition also expands the treatment of British cultural ties by showing how both the South and the agrarian English Gentry were shaped from classical models in ways that differed markedly from an American "city upon a hill" mentality.

The Classical Origins of Southern Literature, Second Edition

History

Kibler, James E

Americas

Virginia First: The 1607 Project

Institute, Abbeville

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