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Library of Southern literature

A wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924

More About This Collection

Date of Original
1733/1923

Subject
Southern States--Literary collections
American literature--Southern States
Southern States--Fiction
Southern States--History
Southern States--Social conditions--Fiction
Southern States--Social life and customs--Fiction
Southern States--Biography
Southern States--Description and travel
Southern States--Poetry
Southern States--Intellectual life
Slavery--Southern States--Songs and music
Spirituals (Songs)--Southern States
African Americans--Music
Slaves--Southern States--Biography
Slaves' writings, American
African Americans--Southern States--Fiction
Dialect literature, American

Location
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434

Medium
books

Type
Text

Description
The "Library of Southern Literature" includes a wide range of literary works of the American South published before 1924. This collection was originally based on Dr. Robert Bain's bibliography of the hundred most important southern literary works and continues to expand under the guidance of scholarly advisors Dr. Joseph M. Flora and Dr. William L. Andrews. This collection begins with some of the earliest texts about America written by British discoverers that set the foundation for American letters and traces the development of southern literature through to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Metadata URL
http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/

Holding Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

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