The Closed Book of Southern Literature

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From the Abbeville Institute:

Until the publication of Jay B. Hubbell’s great The South in American Literature 1607-1900 (Duke University 1954), nobody remembered many of the South’s great writers, apart from Edgar Allan Poe and, if only by deprecation, maybe Joel Chandler Harris.  Now nobody remembers Jay B. Hubbell.

Hubbell’s work extends beyond scholarship through antiquarianism practically to archaeology.  The chief reason why modern Northern historians have treated Southern writers inadequately, he wrote, has been the difficulty of finding writings that survive only in rare books, magazines, and pamphlets.  One…

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