Georgia literature
The literature of Georgia , United States , includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include Erskine Caldwell , Carson McCullers , Margaret Mitchell , Flannery O’Connor , Charles Henry Smith , and Alice Walker .[ 2]
History
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A printing press began operating in Savannah in 1762.[ 3]
Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847).[ 4] William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror. [ 5]
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus [ 6]
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel Cane Sparta ."[ 7]
Organizations
The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.
See also
References
^ Hugh Ruppersburg, "Literature: Overview" , New Georgia Encyclopedia , retrieved March 13, 2017 ^ Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing" , The Colonial Printer , Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive^ Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Antebellum Era" . Encyclopedia of Southern Culture ISBN 0807818232 ^ Flanders 1944 , p. [page needed .^ R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. (2006). "Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings". In Tom Quirk; Gary Scharnhorst (eds.). American History Through Literature 1870-1920 . Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 9780684314938 ^ Emory Elliott , ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8 [page needed
Bibliography
Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Georgia" . Library of Southern Literature . Vol. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 186+. hdl :2027/uc1.31175034925258 – via HathiTrust. Elsie Dershem (1921). "Georgia" . Outline of American State Literature . Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive. Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Literature", Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside American Guide Series , Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. 117– 125, ISBN 9781603540100 Bertram Holland Flanders (2010) [1944]. Early Georgia Magazines: Literary Periodicals To 1865 ISBN 978-0-8203-3536-0 G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6 Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Fiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992).
Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Nonfiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994).
Michael E. Price, Stories with a Moral: Literature and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Poetry (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
Rayburn S. Moore (2001). "Literature of Georgia". In Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan (eds.). Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs Louisiana State University Press . pp. 294–302 . ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9 Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., After O'Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003).
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