Most Recent Articles from Southern Quarterly

• Editor's Introduction 

  That avatar of nineteenth-century American optimism, Walt Whitman (1819-1892), opened his Leaves of Grass with the lines: I CELEBRATE myself, And...

  07/01/09 by Chambers, Douglas B · More from publication

• Minds of the New South: Higher Education in Black and White, 1880-1915(1) 

  Writing in 1884-1885 Professor Charles Foster Smith, a professor of English at Vanderbilt University, painted an unflattering picture of higher...

  07/01/09 by Mohr, Clarence L · More from publication

• Making of Buck Preston: Mary Boykin Chesnut, Women, and the Confederate Memorial Movement, The 

  With his 1981 edition of Mary Boykin Chesnut's Civil War diaries, entitled Mary Chesnut's Civil War, C. Vann Woodward revealed that there were...

  07/01/09 by Kurant, Wendy · More from publication

• Will, The 

  I give the same to my children hereafter mentioned equally to be divided among them; and to be enjoyed by them forever. - Granville Hundley 1887 ...

  07/01/09 by Jackson, Lawrence · More from publication

• Primary Source: Trickster Tales in Alcée Fortier's Louisiana Folk-Tales (1895): English Translations* 

  I. The Elephant and the Whale. One day Compair Lapin and Compair Bouki were going on a journey together. Compair Lapin often took Bouki with him...

  07/01/09 · More from publication

• Alcée Fortier's Encounter with Bouki in Louisiana 

  In Africa, the hare is the main character of a series of stories which we call the "cycle du lièvre" (cycle of the hare). This cycle is...

  07/01/09 by Seck, Ibrahima · More from publication

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