From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction by Sylvia J. Cook

From Tobacco Road to Route 66: The Southern Poor White in Fiction

Sylvia J. Cook

222 pages first pub 1976 (editions)

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In the early nineteenth century, the southern poor white had a reputation for comic vulgarity and absurd violence; postbellum writers saw him as a quaint peasant; the 1920s transformed him into a revolutionary proletarian. Of the literary treatmen...

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