Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1969. 351 pp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1985. 626 pp. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002. 1,054 pp. A dictionary of authors, establishments, places, customs, historical occasions and persons, genres, movements, periodicals, scholars, themes, and stereotypes associated with Southern literature (right here “broadly outlined as constituting a cultural territory that has been imaginatively created by all kinds of ‘makers’”). Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Broad however representative in its coverage and guided by attentive editorial judgment (aside from the lapse that allowed the starkly insubstantial “Sears catalog” entry), Companion to Southern Literature-a necessary desktop companion for specialists in the literature of the South-is a useful resource that will captivate readers into turning leaves long after perusing the entry that brought them to this work. Although not complete-especially in its protection of foreign theses and dissertations on Twain-Southern Literary Culture is effective for its intensive protection, especially of research written in quite a lot of departments aside from English. Indexed by students. Although there are cross-references, the lack of a subject index seriously impedes entry to what is otherwise a useful compilation, especially for those enthusiastic about scholarship on the usage of southern dialects in literary works.
Indexed by dissertation or thesis writers. Coverage should be supplemented with SSSL Bibliography (Q3620), American Literary Scholarship (Q3265), and Jack D. Wages, Seventy-Four Writers of the Colonial South (Boston: Hall, 1979; 252 pp.; Reference Pub. Although missing the breadth of protection of its predecessor, Wages and Andrews’s work stays a helpful compilation but must be supplemented by part H: Guides to Dissertations and Theses. The lack of an index considerably reduces usability, there is appreciable overlapping among the bibliographies, and the coverage (initially too selective for major writers) is now dated, but this stays a useful information to the best scholarship earlier than c. A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature. Texas.” McMillan and Montgomery includes theses, dissertations, analysis reports, ERIC documents, and scholarly reviews of books, however excludes in style journalism, common works on American English, and studies of folklore, international languages, language of children beneath nine, language contact, and literature except of interest to college students of dialect. The roughly 3,800 entries are listed alphabetically by writer in 12 divisions: normal research; historical and creole research; lexical studies; phonology and phonetics; morphology and syntax; place-names; personal and miscellaneous names; figurative language, exaggerations, and wordplay; literary dialect; language attitudes and speech perception; speech acts and magnificence; and bibliographies.
Its roughly 3,000 entries are listed alphabetically by writer in 13 divisions: individual authors, a number of creator studies, common culture, education, folklore, historical past, journalism, libraries, linguistics, music, politics, religion, and speech and theater. A set of selective bibliographies compiled by specialists on southern literature and confined largely to English-language scholarship published by means of the late 1960s. The bibliographies are organized in two divisions: 23 topics (including normal works, periods, themes, local color, periodicals, southern speech, drama, folklore, manuscript collections, and bibliographies) and 135 individual authors. Entries are listed alphabetically by thesis or dissertation creator in three categorised divisions: particular person writers; cultural, historic, and social background (with sections for general studies, folklore, training, theater, libraries and lyceums, onomastics, language, and southern culture via others’ eyes); and normal literary studies (with sections for research that embrace the South, studies restricted to southern literature, bibliographies and checklists, comparative studies, newspapers and periodicals, and original works written at southern universities). Women writers are more fully treated in the History of Southern Women’s Literature, ed.
