The Southerner as American writer.
Simms and the wider world: Views and reviews.
William Gilmore Simms's picture of the Revolution as a civil war.
The influence of Scott and Cooper on Simms.
Simms and the British dramatists.
William Gilmore Simms and the American Renaissance.
The view from the Regency Hyatt.
Ellen Glasgow: the novelist of manners as social critic.
The dark, ruined Helen of his blood: Thomas Wolfe and the South.
The loneliness at the core.
Europe as catalyst for Thomas Wolfe.
The unity of Faulkner's Light in August.
Absalom, Absalom! The historian as detective.
Her rue with a difference.
Literature and culture: the fugitive-agrarians.
