The Dream of Arcady: Place and Time in Southern Literature

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The Dream of Arcady This page intentionally left blank The Dream of Arcady Place and Time in Southern Literature Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan Louisiana State University Press BatonRouge and London Copyright © 1980 by LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Design: Robert L. Nance Typeface: Galiiard Composition: LSU Press Printing: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Binding: John H. Dckker & Sons, Inc. Author and publisher arc grateful for permission to reprint material that previously appeared in these journals: "To See Things in Their Time: The Act of Focus in Eudora Welty's Fiction," American Literature, L (May, 1978). "Jean Toomer's Cane: A Pastoral Problem," Mississippi Quarterly, XXVIII (Fall, 1975). 'Thomas Nelson Page: The Plantation as Arcady," Virginia Quarterly Review, LIV (Spring, 1978). Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick. The dream of Arcady. Bibliography: p. CONTENTS: The South as Arcady.—Sidney Lanier.—Thomas Nelson Page, [etc.] 1. American literature—Southern States—History and criticism. 2. Pastoral literature, American—Southern States—History and criticism. I. Title. PS261.M25 810'.9'32 79-16543' ISBN 0-8071-2493-1 To Louis D. Rubin, Jr. This page intentionally left blank ...