Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston - Paperback

by Will Brantley (Author)

Feminine Sense in Southern Memoir: Smith, Glasgow, Welty, Hellman, Porter, and Hurston by Will Brantley This study is an intertextual examination of selected self-writings by Lillian Smith, Ellen Glasgow, Eudora Welty, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, and Zora Neale Hurston. Here their memoirs are placed within a context of southern feminism and the more inclusive discourse of modern American liberalism. Will Brantley is a professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.

Front Jacket

Feminism and liberalism in autobiographical writings of six women of the American South

Author Biography

Will Brantley is professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. He is editor of Conversations with Pauline Kael and coeditor (with Nancy McGuire Roche) of Conversations with Edmund White, both published by University Press of Mississippi.