The first study to focus on white and black women journalists and writers both before and after the Civil War, this book offers fresh insight into Southern inte

Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial inter

Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in

An examination of the literary marketplace's central role in creating the Southern Literary Renaissance.

After the Civil War, the South was divided into five military districts occupied by Union forces. Out of these regions, a remarkable group of writers emerged. E