Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Bohemian Groves in Southern Soil -- The Southern Origins of Bohemian New York: Edward Howland, Ada Clare, and Edgar Allan Poe -- The Double Dealers in Bohemian New Orleans -- A Community Far Afield: Black Mountain College and the Southern …
From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet,…
From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth century Athens, NOrth Carolina, the bhoemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet, even as the fruits of this creative South have famously been celebrated,…
"This ... collection uses bohemia as a novel lens for reconsidering more traditional views of the South. Exploring wide-ranging locales, such as Athens, Austin, Black Mountain College, Knoxville, Memphis, New Orleans, and North Carolina's Research Triangle, each essay challenges…
A panorama of past and contemporary southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures by some of the South's leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. Crossing the chasms of demographics, academic disciplines, art forms, and…
A panorama of past and contemporary southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures by some of the SouthÆs leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. Crossing the chasms of demographics, academic disciplines, art forms, and…
Annotation For more than thirty years John Shelton Reed has been "minding" the South--watching over it, providing commentary upon it. He is the author or editor of thirteen books about the South, and despite his disclaimer regarding formal study of Southern history, Reed has rea…
[This book] addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience.-Back cover.
"C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of stude…