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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 .
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History
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(March 2017 )
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] In 1838 in Augusta,
William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror.
[5]
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling
Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales."
[6]
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel
Cane after "a three-month sojourn in
Sparta ."
[7]
Organizations
The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.
See also
References
^ Hugh Ruppersburg,
"Literature: Overview" ,
New Georgia Encyclopedia , Georgia Humanities Council, retrieved March 13, 2017
^
Lawrence C. Wroth (1938),
"Diffusion of Printing" , The Colonial Printer , Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
^ Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989).
"Antebellum Era" .
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture . University of North Carolina Press.
ISBN
0807818232 – via Documenting the American South.
^
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 . Columbia University Press.
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 – via Google Books
Bertram Holland Flanders (2010) [1944].
Early Georgia Magazines: Literary Periodicals To 1865 . University of Georgia Press.
ISBN
978-0-8203-3536-0 .
G. Thomas Tanselle (1971).
Guide to the Study of United States Imprints . Harvard University Press.
ISBN
978-0-674-36761-6 . (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).
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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