Evelyn Scott was a significant literary figure in American letters of the 1920s and l930s, an important contributor in the experimental forms and techniques of the modernist movement She wrote and published in many genres--the novel, short fiction, poetry, memoir, criticism, and drama. Since that time, Scott's work has been forgotten by most readers and critics of literature, and her reputation as an important writer of her day has been obscured. This collection, which features an introduction and thirteen critical essays, ...
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Evelyn Scott was a significant literary figure in American letters of the 1920s and l930s, an important contributor in the experimental forms and techniques of the modernist movement She wrote and published in many genres--the novel, short fiction, poetry, memoir, criticism, and drama. Since that time, Scott's work has been forgotten by most readers and critics of literature, and her reputation as an important writer of her day has been obscured. This collection, which features an introduction and thirteen critical essays, is the first volume to focus on Scot's work rather than her intriguing yet troubled life and initiates a long-needed examination of Scott's innovations in fiction, memoir and other genres. The various essays take diverse critical approaches to Scott's canon, including her best known works--Escapade and The Wave--and explore her views on topics such as women, politics, religion, art, and the South. The contributors examine Scott in terms of other writers of her time, such as Katherine Anne Porter, Kay Boyle, Waldo Frank, Allen Tate, and William Faulkner; they place her into the larger context of American writing of the early twentieth century and illustrate the value of her work to the studies of such fields as modernist literature, women's writing, and southern literature. Additionally, the volume contains the first critical studies of Scott's drama, poetry, short stories, literary criticism, and unpublished novel, "Before Cock Crow." The volume is both the place to start for an introduction to Scott's work and a valuable tool for those already familiar with her writing. The Editors: Dorothy M. Scura is professor of English at the University of Tennessee. Her other books include Ellen Glasgow: New Perspectives and Conversations with Tom Wolfe. She has published articles on Glasgow, Doris Betts, and other southern women writers in Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Review, American Literary Realism, and Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Paul C. Jones is a visiting assistant professor at Converse College. His previous work, primarily focusing on the literature of the antebellum South, includes published articles on Frederick Douglass, William Gilmore Simms, and Edgar Allan Poe. The Contributors: Will Brantley, Martha E. Cook, Tim Edwards, Marilyn Elkins, Paul Christian Jones, Lucinda H. MacKethan, Caroline Maun, Karen Overbye, Mary E. Papke, Steven T. Ryan, Dorothy M. Scura, Janis P. Stout, and Mary Wheeling.
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