160 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / no illustrations
In A Certain Slant of Light, David Marion Holman examines two enormously productive regional American literatures—those of the South and the Midwest—from about 1832 to 1925. By focusing on the role history plays in the imaginations of selected writers of that period, he seeks to answer a perennial question: What is “Midwestern” about Midwestern literature, and what is “southern” about southern literature?
What emerges from Holman’s unique study is solid documentation of a genuinely creative divergence in the literary imaginations of two kinds of American writing, each of which resulted in some of the most distinguished literature of the twentieth century.
Jerry Leath Mills is professor of English at the University of North Carolina. He is editor of Studies in Philology and a passionate hunter and angler.
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