Upon Provincialism: Southern Literature and National Periodical Culture, 1870–1900

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Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 “The Creative Potency of Hunger”: Travel Writing, Local Color, and the Charting of the Postwar South 17 2 Unveiling the Body: Literary Reception and the “Outing” of Charles W. Chesnutt and Mary N. Murfree 45 3 On the Fringes: Local Color’s Haunting of the Unified South 71 4 “Wooing the Muse of the Odd”: New Orleans at the Gate of the Tropics 106 Epilogue 145 Notes 157 Index 175 ...