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CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION The Old South and Historical Causality 1 I. THE EDGE OF THE SWAMP Literature and Society in the Old South 12 II. THE DREAM OF THE PLANTATION Simms, Hammond, Charleston 54 III. THE ROMANCE OF THE FRONTIER Simms, Cooper, and the Wilderness 103 IV. THE INWARD IMAGINATION Poe 127 V. THE POET LAUREATE OF THE CONFEDERACY 190 INDEX 227 This page intentionally left blank ...

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