History of Southern Literature
FAIN: RX-*1753-81
Society for the Study of Southern Literature (Miss. State, MS 39762-2625)
Robert L. Phillips (Project Director: December 1980 to October 1990)
To support a research conference to plan a LITERARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH, a survey of Southern literature primarily from 1900. This is the first such study in more than 25 years, and the first to incorporate the role of Afro-American writers.