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Swallow Barn

Author : John Pendleton Kennedy
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0807113220

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Originally published in 1832 and revised in 1851, Swallow Barn, John Pendleton Kennedy’s novel of antebellum life on a tidewater Virginia plantation, was described by its author as “variously and interchangeably partaking of the complexion of a book of travels, a diary, a collection of letters, a drama, and a history.” Swallow Barn has returned from oblivion many times in the past 150 years, in part because it resists categorization and retains its originality. It is a novel that is not a novel, written by a man who was and was not a southerner or even, by his own reckoning, a writer. Swallow Barn began as a series of letters written by a Mark Littleton (Kennedy) to his hometown neighbor, Zachary Huddlestone of Preston Ridge, New York. Littleton, visiting his Virginia relatives at their farm called Swallow Barn, on the James River not far from Richmond, told his friend that he would write a “full, true and particular account of all my doings, or rather my seeings and thinkings” while he was among his genial relatives. But Kennedy soon dropped the pose of letter writer and devoted successive chapters to sketches of Virginia country life. In choosing to write about the “manners” of his own region, he won not only esteem as an American author but recognition for a way of life toward which an open hostility was developing in the North. Lucinda MacKethan’s introduction to this edition considers biographical information and the cultural and literary forces that operated to make Swallow Barn a unique as well as a representative product of its period. MacKethan also discusses Kennedy’s design for the novel, the ideological and artistic strategies that governed the choices and changes he made as he created what is now regarded as one of the most important fictional portrayals of plantation society by one intimately involved in that place and time.

Swallow Barn, Or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion

Author : John Pendleton Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : American fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433076089170

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Swallow Barn

Author : John Pendleton Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : American fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433082294616

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Swallow Barn, Or, A Soujourn in the Old Dominion

Author : John Pendleton Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3579104

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Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow

Author : Charles R. Brown,Mary Bomberger Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0226076261

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Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow by Charles R. Brown,Mary Bomberger Brown Pdf

Many animal species live and breed in colonies. Although biologists have documented numerous costs and benefits of group living, such as increased competition for limited resources and more pairs of eyes to watch for predators, they often still do not agree on why coloniality evolved in the first place. Drawing on their twelve-year study of a population of cliff swallows in Nebraska, the Browns investigate twenty-six social and ecological costs and benefits of coloniality, many never before addressed in a systematic way for any species. They explore how these costs and benefits are reflected in reproductive success and survivorship, and speculate on the evolution of cliff swallow coloniality. This work, the most comprehensive and detailed study of vertebrate coloniality to date, will be of interest to all who study social animals, including behavioral ecologists, population biologists, ornithologists, and parasitologists. Its focus on the evolution of coloniality will also appeal to evolutionary biologists and to psychologists studying decision making in animals.

The Companion to Southern Literature

Author : Joseph M. Flora,Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0807126926

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The Companion to Southern Literature by Joseph M. Flora,Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan Pdf

Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Selected as an Outstanding Reference Source by the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association There are many anthologies of southern literature, but this is the first companion. Neither a survey of masterpieces nor a biographical sourcebook, The Companion to Southern Literature treats every conceivable topic found in southern writing from the pre-Columbian era to the present, referencing specific works of all periods and genres. Top scholars in their fields offer original definitions and examples of the concepts they know best, identifying the themes, burning issues, historical personalities, beloved icons, and common or uncommon stereotypes that have shaped the most significant regional literature in memory. Read the copious offerings straight through in alphabetical order (Ancestor Worship, Blue-Collar Literature, Caves) or skip randomly at whim (Guilt, The Grotesque, William Jefferson Clinton). Whatever approach you take, The Companion’s authority, scope, and variety in tone and interpretation will prove a boon and a delight. Explored here are literary embodiments of the Old South, New South, Solid South, Savage South, Lazy South, and “Sahara of the Bozart.” As up-to-date as grit lit, K Mart fiction, and postmodernism, and as old-fashioned as Puritanism, mules, and the tall tale, these five hundred entries span a reach from Lady to Lesbian Literature. The volume includes an overview of every southern state’s belletristic heritage while making it clear that the southern mind extends beyond geographical boundaries to form an essential component of the American psyche. The South’s lavishly rich literature provides the best means of understanding the region’s deepest nature, and The Companion to Southern Literature will be an invaluable tool for those who take on that exciting challenge. Description of Contents 500 lively, succinct articles on topics ranging from Abolition to Yoknapatawpha 250 contributors, including scholars, writers, and poets 2 tables of contents — alphabetical and subject — and a complete index A separate bibliography for most entries

The Barn Swallow

Author : Angela Turner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408128213

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The Barn Swallow is a familiar and popular bird throughout the world. It is one of the most widely distributed bird species, breeding in North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa and wintering in South America, southern Africa, southern Asia and even northern Australia. Its habit of nesting close to human habitation has made this elegant bird a part of farmyard and village life and a welcome herald of spring. This book examines all aspects of the life of this endearing bird, with chapters on its flying skills and feeding habits, mate choice, breeding strategies, nest sites, eggs and incubation, nestling rearing, productivity and survival, migratory behaviour and population dynamics. It also considers changes in populations and behaviour in relation to intensive agriculture and climate change. The Barn Swallow is both engaging and authoritative; birdwatchers will enjoy amazing insights into the life of the species, such as the importance of tail feathers when finding a mate, or the sinister way that some birds kill of the chicks of rivals. Academic scholars will appreciate the book's broad overview of current research on this species.

Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865

Author : Eric J. Sundquist
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781578068630

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Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865 by Eric J. Sundquist Pdf

A revealing juxtaposition of the literatures of Manifest Destiny and a dream deferred

Haunted Bodies

Author : Anne Goodwyn Jones,Susan Van D'Elden Donaldson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813917263

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Haunted Bodies by Anne Goodwyn Jones,Susan Van D'Elden Donaldson Pdf

In Haunted Bodies, Anne Goodwyn Jones and Susan V. Donaldson have brought together some of our most highly regarded southern historians and literary critics to consider race, gender, and texts through three centuries and from a wealth of vantage points. Works as diversive as eighteenth-century court petitions and lyrics of 1970s rock music demonstrate how definitions of southern masculinity and femininity have been subject to bewildering shifts and disabling contradictions for centuries.

The Dream of Arcady

Author : Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807124931

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The Dream of Arcady by Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan Pdf

"This is a well-organized, gracefully written account of a significant aspect of Southern fiction, and it contains information and incisive commentary that one can find nowhere else." --Thomas Daniel Young Many southern writers imagined the South as a qualified dream of Arcady. They retained the glow of the golden land as a device to expose or rebuke, to confront or escape the complexities of the actual times in which they lived. The Dream of Arcady examines the work of post-Civil War southern writers who criticize the myth of the South as pastoral paradise. Sooner or later in all their idealized worlds, the idyllic vision fades in an inescapable moment of awakening. This moment, which is central to MacKethan's study, produces an atmosphere pastoral in mood and implications. Her perspective analysis juxtaposes the responses of Sidney Lanier, Joel Chandler Harris, and Thomas Nelson Page, who contributed to yet hope to transcend sectionalism, with the ambivalent views of black writers Charles Chesnutt and Jean Toomer. Considering the writings of the Agrarians, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty, MacKethan then concludes her study by questioning whether the Arcadian dream still serves the artist of our era as a frame for artistic and ideological purposes.

American Quarterly Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Serial publications
ISBN : NYPL:33433081754511

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A History of the Literature of the U.S. South: Volume 1

Author : Harilaos Stecopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108604628

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A History of the Literature of the U.S. South provides scholars with a dynamic and heterogeneous examination of southern writing from John Smith to Natasha Trethewey. Eschewing a master narrative limited to predictable authors and titles, the anthology adopts a variegated approach that emphasizes the cultural and political tensions crucial to the making of this regional literature. Certain chapters focus on major white writers (e.g., Thomas Jefferson, William Faulkner, the Agrarians, Cormac McCarthy), but a substantial portion of the work foregrounds the achievements of African American writers like Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sarah Wright to address the multiracial and transnational dimensions of this literary formation. Theoretically informed and historically aware, the volume's contributors collectively demonstrate how southern literature constitutes an aesthetic, cultural and political field that richly repays examination from a variety of critical perspectives.