Romantic Revolution in America, 1800–1860
(New York, 1927), 1–172. On Simms see especially Jon L. Wakelyn,
The Politics of a Literary Man: William Gilmore Simms
(Westport, Conn., 1973). J. V. Ridgely.John
Pendleton Kennedy
(New York, 1966) is the standard biography of Kennedy.
16 Cited in Parrington,
Main Currents,
II, 130.
17
Ibid.
, 55.
18
Ibid.,
54. On Poe see also Arthur Hobson Quinn,
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography
(New York, 1941); and Edd Winfield Parks,
Edgar Allan Poe as Literary Critic
(Athens, Ga., 1964).
19 Jay B. Hubbell, “Literary Nationalism in the Old South,” in David K.Jackson (ed.),
American Studies in Honor of William Kenneth Boyd
(Durham, N.C., 1940), pp. 175–200; Edd Winfield Parks,
Henry Timrod
(New York, 1964); Rayburn S. Moore,
Paul Hamilton Hayne
(New York, 1972); and Parrington,
Main Currents,
II, 98–107.
20 Paul H. Hayne (ed.),
The Poems of Henry Timrod
(New York, 1873), p. 128.
21 Eaton,
History of the Old South,
pp. 403–404, 451.
22 On Southern architecture see Lewis Mumford,
The South in Architecture
(New York, 1941); T. F. Hamlin,
Greek Revival Architecture in America
(New York, 1944), and
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
(New York, 1955); J. C. Bonner, “Plantation Architecture of the Lower South on the Eve of the Civil War
,” Journal of Southern History,
XI (1945), 370–388; Edward and Elizabeth Waugh,
The South Builds
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 1960); and Frank E. Everett, Jr.,
Brierfield: Plantation Home of Jefferson Davis
(Hattiesburg, Miss., 1971).
23 Everett Dick,
The Dixie Frontier
(New York, 1948).
24 ”Recent Southern Fiction: A Panel Discussion,”
Bulletin of Wesleyan College,
XLI (1961), 11.
25 See Daniel W. Patterson, “Folklore,” in Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (ed.),
A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature
(Baton Rouge, La., 1969), pp. 102–118.
26 Eaton,
Mind of the Old South,
pp. 130–151; Franklin G. Meine (ed.),
Tall Tales of the Southwest
(New York, 1937); Edmund Wilson,
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
(New York, 1966), pp. 507–519.
27 Mildred Lewis Rutherford,
The South in History and Literature
(Atlanta, Ga., 1907), pp. 306–316.
28 Patterson, “Folklore,” pp. 107–118; Sterling Stuckey, “Through the Prism of Folklore,”
Massachusetts Review,
IX (1968), 417–437; John W. Blassingame,
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South
(New York, 1972), pp. 41–76; Eaton,
Growth of Southern Civilization,
pp. 172–173; Georgia Writers’ Project,
Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies among the Georgia Coastal Negroes
(New York, 1972).
29 John Alden’s
The First South
(Baton Rouge, La., 1961) suggests that Southern sectional concern predated the nineteenth century and was a factor in the Revolutionary era. See also Irving H. Bartlett,
The American Mind in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
(New York, 1967), pp. 73–93.
30 The best biography of Calhoun is still Charles W. Wilts
e, John C. Calhoun,
3 vols. (New York, 1944–1951). Others include Margaret L. Coit,
John C. Calhoun: American Portrait
(Boston, 1959); Gerald N. Capers
, John C. Calhoun—Opportunist: A Reappraisal
(Gainesville, Fla., 1960); and Richard N. Currant,
John C. Calhoun
(New York, 1963). On the nullification crisis see William W. Freehling,
Prelude to Civil War: The Nullification Controversy in South Carolina, 1816–1836
(New York, 1965).
31 On Fitzhugh see Eugene D. Genovese,
The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation
(New York, 1969), p. 118 ff. The best brief analysis of the Southern political mind is Bartlett,
American Mind,
pp. 73–93.
32 See Parrington,
Main Currents,
II, 94–98.
33 Quoted in C. E. Robinson,
Hellas: A Short History of Ancient Greece
(Boston, 1948), p. 78.
34 Richard K. Crallé (ed.).
The Works of John C. Calhoun,
6 vols. (New York, 1854), III, 180–181.
35 Emory M. Thomas,
The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience
(Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1971), pp. 7–8.
36 See
Callie Hart
Shelley Munro
Anna J. Evans
Randy Wayne White
Dan Skinner
Shannon A. Thompson
Jeanne Bannon
Nancy Hopper
Randi Alexander
Emily Minton