The History of Southern Women's Literature Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
I	The Antebellum and Bellum South (Beginnings to 1865)
	Introduction to Part I	7
	Antebellum Journals and Collections of Letters	17
	Captivity Narratives	25
	Gender Issues in the Old South	32
	Eliza Lucas Pinckney	43
	The Novel	48
	Women's Magazines	59
	Caroline Howard Gilman	64
	The Grimke Sisters	70
	Louisa S. McCord	77
	Caroline Lee Hentz	82
	Early African American Women Writers	87
	Southern Women Writers' Responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin	97
	Harriet Ann Jacobs	103
	Civil War Diaries and Memoirs	109
	Mary Chesnut	119
II	The Postbellum South (1865-1900)
	Introduction to Part II	125
	The New Woman of the New South	133
	The Postbellum Novel	141
	Augusta Jane Evans Wilson	150
	Southern History in the Imagination of African American Women Writers	156
	Frances Ellen Watkins Harper	164
	Southern Women Journalists	169
	Southern Women Humorists	176
	Mary Noailles Murfree	187
	Southern Women Poets of the Victorian Age	193
	Louisiana Writers of the Postbellum South	201
	Kate Chopin	210
	Grace King	216
	Anna Julia Cooper	220
	Alice Dunbar-Nelson	225
III	Renaissance in the South (1900-1960)
	Introduction to Part III	233
	Southern Women Writers and the Beginning of the Renaissance	242
	The Modern Novel	251
	Gone with the Wind and Its Influence	258
	Southern Women's Autobiography	268
	Women Writers and the Myths of Southern Womanhood	275
	Re-Visioning the Southern Land	290
	Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance	296
	Appalachian Writers	309
	Southern Women Writers and Social Issues	316
	The Growing Importance of Literary Circles and Mentors	329
	Ellen Glasgow	336
	Julia Peterkin	343
	Elizabeth Madox Roberts	349
	Frances Newman	354
	Katherine Anne Porter	359
	Evelyn Scott	364
	Caroline Gordon	369
	Lillian Smith	374
	Zora Neale Hurston	379
	Lillian Hellman	386
	Eudora Welty	391
	Carson McCullers	399
	Flannery O'Connor	404
	Harper Lee	413
IV	The Contemporary South (1960 to the Present)
	Introduction to Part IV	421
	Myths of Southern Womanhood in Contemporary Literature	429
	Southern Women Writers and the Women's Movement	439
	Contemporary Autobiography and Memoir	447
	Contemporary Writers and Race	455
	Contemporary Poetry	467
	Southern Women Writers in a Changing Landscape	478
	A Second Southern Renaissance	491
	Margaret Walker	498
	Mary Lee Settle	503
	Elizabeth Spencer	508
	Ellen Douglas	512
	Maya Angelou	517
	Shirley Ann Grau	525
	Doris Betts	530
	Sonia Sanchez	535
	Ellen Gilchrist	541
	Gail Godwin	545
	Bobbie Ann Mason	550
	Anne Tyler	559
	Alice Walker	563
	Rita Mae Brown	570
	Lee Smith	575
	Josephine Humphreys	579
	Dorothy Allison	584
	Beth Henley	588
	Jayne Anne Phillips	594
	Jill McCorkle	599
	Kaye Gibbons	604
	Afterword: The Future of Southern Women's Writing	610
App	The Study of Southern Women's Literature	621
	Bibliography of General Secondary Sources on Southern Women's Literature	633
	Contributors	641
	Index	653