Misplaced Pages

Georgia literature

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Literature of Georgia (U.S. state)) This article is about literature from the U.S. state. For literature from the country, see Georgian literature. For other uses, see Georgian literature (disambiguation).
This article is part of a series on the
Culture of the
United States
Society
Arts and literature
Other
Symbols

United States portal

The literature of Georgia, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative writers include Erskine Caldwell, Carson McCullers, Margaret Mitchell, Flannery O’Connor, Charles Henry Smith, and Alice Walker.

History

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (March 2017)

A printing press began operating in Savannah in 1762.

Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847). In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror.

Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling African American folktales."

Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel Cane after "a three-month sojourn in Sparta."

Organizations

The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.

See also

References

  1. Moore 2001.
  2. Hugh Ruppersburg, "Literature: Overview", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council, retrieved March 13, 2017
  3. Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
  4. Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Antebellum Era". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 – via Documenting the American South.
  5. Flanders 1944, p. .
  6. R. Bruce Bickley, Jr. (2006). "Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings". In Tom Quirk; Gary Scharnhorst (eds.). American History Through Literature 1870-1920. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 9780684314938.
  7. Emory Elliott, ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8.

Bibliography

External links

State of Georgia
Atlanta (capital)
Topics
Society
Regions
Largest cities
Counties
Culture of the United States by locale
Culture by city or
metropolitan area
Culture by state
Culture by region
Federal district
North American literature
Sovereign states
Dependencies and
other territories


Stub icon

This article about American literature is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article related to the state of Georgia is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: