Georgia literature explained

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.

History

A printing press began operating in Savannah in 1762.^[1]

Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847).^[2] In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror.

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales."^[3]

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel Cane after "a three-month sojourn in Sparta."^[4]

Organizations

The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.

See also

• • List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state)
    • Southern United States literature
• American literary regionalism

Bibliography

• Book: Library of Southern Literature . Lucian Lamar Knight . Martin and Hoyt Company . Atlanta . 1913. Fifty Reading Courses: Georgia. 16 . 186+. 2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=494 . https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=494 . HathiTrust .
• Book: Elsie Dershem . Outline of American State Literature . World Company . Lawrence, Kansas . 1921. Georgia . https://archive.org/stream/outlineofamerica001157mbp#page/n43/mode/2up . Internet Archive.
  • Book: Bertram Holland Flanders . Early Georgia Magazines: Literary Periodicals To 1865 . 2010 . 1944 . University of Georgia Press. 978-0-8203-3536-0 . .
• Book: . Guide to the Study of United States Imprints . registration . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-36761-6 . 1971 . (Includes information about Georgia literature)
• 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).
• Book: Joseph M. Flora . Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan . Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs . . 978-0-8071-2692-9 . 2001 . Literature of Georgia . 294–302 . Rayburn S. Moore . .
• Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., After O'Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003).

External links

• Web site: Literary Landmarks by State: Georgia . American Library Association . Chicago . United for Libraries . 27 February 2009 .
• Web site: Georgia Historic Books . Books related to Georgia's history and culture . . (Fulltext; mostly 19th-early 20th c.)
• Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20120315014710/http://www.geckosgeorgia.com/georgia-authors.php . Georgia Authors . dead . March 15, 2012 . Gecko's Georgia . Scott Thompson .
  • Web site: Georgia: Arts and Entertainment: Literature . . . (Directory ceased in 2017)

Notes and References

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2. Book: Charles Reagan Wilson . William Ferris . Encyclopedia of Southern Culture . 0807818232 . University of North Carolina Press . 1989 . http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/antebellum.html . Antebellum Era . Documenting the American South .
3. Book: Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings . R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. . American History Through Literature 1870-1920 . Tom Quirk . Gary Scharnhorst . Detroit . Charles Scribner's Sons . 2006 . 9780684314938 .
4. Book: . Columbia History of the American Novel . registration . 1991 . Columbia University Press . 978-0-231-07360-8 .