{"product_id":"the-immoderate-past-the-southern-writer-and-history-9780820333571","title":"The Immoderate Past: The Southern Writer and History","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Immoderate Past\u003c\/i\u003e deals with the southern writer's preoccupation with history, concentrating on representative novelists from three major periods. Finding the origins of this preoccupation in the antebellum period, when most American novelists wrote in the mode of Sir Walter Scott, C. Hugh Holman examines the Revolutionary romances of William Gilmore Simms. With the coming of realism to American fiction after the Civil War, the southern writer turned to a combination of the realistic method with the novel of manners in order to describe the way of life in the South during the nineteenth century. The Civil War replaced the American Revolution as the crucial event in the novels of this second period and was seen as disrupting the quality and texture of antebellum southern life. To illustrate the southern novel in the realistic tradition, Holman discusses Ellen Glasgow's \u003ci\u003eThe Battleground\u003c\/i\u003e, DuBose Heyward's \u003ci\u003ePeter Ashley\u003c\/i\u003e, Stark Young's \u003ci\u003eSo Red the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, Allen Tate's \u003ci\u003eThe Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e, Margaret Mitchell's \u003ci\u003eGone with the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, and Margaret Walker's \u003ci\u003eJubilee\u003c\/i\u003e. Since the 1930s writers in the region have experimented with modernistic techniques distorting reality in order to make special statement about the nature and meaning of the southern experience. To illustrate this latest development in southern writing, Holman turns to William Faulkner's \u003ci\u003eLight in August\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e; Robert Penn Warren's \u003ci\u003eAll the King's Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWorld Enough and Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrother to Dragons\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWilderness\u003c\/i\u003e; and William Styron's \u003ci\u003eConfessions of Nat Turner\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eThe Immoderate Past\u003c\/i\u003e closes with a consideration of the extent to which southern novelists have persisted in using time as a major dimension in their fiction, whereas time has tended to be displaced by space in the standard American novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. Hugh Holman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820333571","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45606502334601,"sku":"9780820333571","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_6bad451a-e57d-4ab9-a360-f586d692aa7c.jpg?v=1776752845","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-immoderate-past-the-southern-writer-and-history-9780820333571","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}