Southern Literature

Across the Creek: Faulkner Family Stories

Aesthetic Frontiers: The Machiavellian Tradition and the Southern Imagination

After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South

Apostles of Light

At Home Abroad: Mark Twain in Australasia

Barry Hannah: Postmodern Romantic

The Big Ballad Jamboree

Children of the Dark House: Text and Context in Faulkner

The Christ-Haunted Landscape: Faith and Doubt in Southern Fiction

Conversations with Dorothy Allison

Conversations with Elizabeth Spencer

Conversations with Ellen Douglas

Conversations with Ernest Gaines

Conversations with Eudora Welty

Conversations with Flannery O'Connor

Conversations with Larry Brown

Conversations with Lee Smith

Conversations with Margaret Walker

Conversations with Maya Angelou

Conversations with Peter Taylor

Conversations with Reynolds Price

Conversations with Richard Ford

Conversations with Richard Wright

Conversations with Robert Penn Warren

Conversations with Shelby Foote

Conversations with Tennessee Williams

Conversations with Thornton Wilder

Conversations with Walker Percy

Conversations with William Faulkner

Conversations with William Styron

Conversations with Willie Morris

A Cormac McCarthy Companion: The Border Trilogy

The Correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and the Brainard Cheneys

"A Cosmos of My Own": Faulkner and Yoknapatawtha, 1980

Count No 'Count: Flashbacks to Faulkner

A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty

Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature

The Dragon's Blood: Feminist Intertextuality in Eudora Welty's 'The Golden Apples'

DuBose Heyward: A Charleston Gentleman and the World of Porgy and Bess

Early Escapades

Eudora Welty as Photographer

Eudora Welty: A Bibliography of Her Work

Eudora Welty: Seeing Black and White

Eudora Welty: Thirteen Essays

Faulkner and Formalism: Returns of the Text

Faulkner and Gender

Faulkner and His Contemporaries

Faulkner and Humor

Faulkner and Idealism: Perspectives from Paris

Faulkner and Ideology

Faulkner and Material Culture

Faulkner and Popular Culture

Faulkner and Postmodernism

Faulkner and Psychology

Faulkner and Race

Faulkner and Religion

Faulkner and the Artist

Faulkner and the Craft of Fiction

Faulkner and the Ecology of the South

Faulkner and the Natural World

Faulkner and the Short Story

Faulkner and the Southern Renaissance

Faulkner and War

Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Literary Tradition

Faulkner and Whiteness

Faulkner and Women

Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and Prospect

Faulkner at West Point

A Faulkner Chronology

Faulkner in America

Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century

Faulkner on the Color Line: The Later Novels

Faulkner's Inheritance

Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain

Faulkner: A Biography

Faulkner: Masks and Metaphors

Faulkner's Rowan Oak

Faulkner's Sexualities

Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston

Fire in the Morning

Flannery O' Connor: An Introduction

Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque

Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers

Gender and the Southern Body Politic

Global Faulkner

The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction

Inventing Southern Literature

Kangaroo Hollow

Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations

Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist

Larry Brown and the Blue-Collar South

Larry Brown: A Writer's Life

A Lifetime Burning

Louisiana

The Loved and the Unloved

The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate

Manners and Southern History

Mississippi Writers Talking

Mississippi Writers Talking II

Mississippi Writers: An Anthology

Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. I: Fiction

Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. II: Non-fiction

Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. III: Poetry

Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. IV: Drama

My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams

My Mississippi

My Two Oxfords

My Two Oxfords

New Orleans Sketches

The Night Travellers

Occasions: Selected Writings

On the Gulf

On William Faulkner

One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place

Outside the Southern Myth

The Past Is Not Dead: Essays from the Southern Quarterly

Personal Souths Interviews from the Southern Quarterly

Perspectives on Barry Hannah

Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy

Perspectives on Harry Crews

Perspectives on Richard Ford

Poe

Porgy

Race and Family in the Colonial South

Reading Faulkner: Absalom, Absalom!

Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories

Reading Faulkner: Light in August

Reading Faulkner: Sanctuary

Reading Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury

Reading Faulkner: The Unvanquished

The Rock Cried Out

Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment

Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture

Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers

Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life

Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian

Sitting in Darkness: New South Fiction, Education, and the Rise of Jim Crow Colonialism, 1865-1920

The Snare

Speaking of the Short Story: Interviews with Contemporary Writers

Still Following Percy

Tennessee Williams and the South

Tennessee Williams and the South

A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy

Touring Literary Mississippi

Truman Capote: Conversations

The Uncollected Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman

Voice of a Native Son: The Poetics of Richard Wright

Walker Percy: A Southern Wayfarer

A Web of Relationship: Women in the Short Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman

The Welty Collection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Welty: A Life in Literature

Where the Dreams Cross

Witnessing

The World of Richard Wright

A Writer's Eye: Collected Book Reviews

The Writing Life

The Years of Our Friendship: Robert Lowell and Allen Tate

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