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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.[1][2]
History[edit]
A printing press began operating in Savannah in 1762.[3]
Writers of the antebellum period included Thomas Holley Chivers (1809-1858), Richard Henry Wilde (1789-1847).[4] In 1838 in Augusta, William Tappan Thompson founded the "first literary journal in Georgia," the Mirror.[5]
Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) wrote the bestselling Uncle Remus stories, first published in 1880, a "retelling [of] African American folktales."[6]
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) wrote the novel Cane after "a three-month sojourn in Sparta."[7]
Organizations[edit]
The Georgia Writers Association formed in 1994.
See also[edit]
- Category:Writers from Georgia (U.S. state)
- List of newspapers in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Category:Georgia (U.S. state) in fiction
- Category:Libraries in Georgia (U.S. state)
- Southern United States literature
- American literary regionalism
References[edit]
- ^ Moore 2001.
- ^ Hugh Ruppersburg, "Literature: Overview", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council, retrieved March 13, 2017
- ^ Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
- ^ 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.
- ^ Flanders 1944, p. [page needed].
- ^ 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.
- ^ Emory Elliott, ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8.[page needed]
Bibliography[edit]
- Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Georgia". Library of Southern Literature. Vol. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 186+. hdl:2027/uc1.31175034925258 – via HathiTrust.
- Elsie Dershem (1921). "Georgia". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive.
- Federal Writers' Project (1940), "Literature", Georgia: a Guide to Its Towns and Countryside, American Guide Series, Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. 117–125, ISBN 9781603540100 – via Google Books
- Bertram Holland Flanders (2010) [1944]. Early Georgia Magazines: Literary Periodicals To 1865. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-3536-0.
- G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about Georgia literature)
- Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Fiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992).
- Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Nonfiction (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994).
- Michael E. Price, Stories with a Moral: Literature and Society in Nineteenth-Century Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
- Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., Georgia Voices: Poetry (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
- Rayburn S. Moore (2001). "Literature of Georgia". In Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan (eds.). Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 294–302. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.
- Hugh Ruppersburg, ed., After O'Connor: Stories from Contemporary Georgia (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003).
External links[edit]
- United for Libraries (27 February 2009). "Literary Landmarks by State: Georgia". Chicago: American Library Association.
- "Georgia Historic Books" – via Digital Library of Georgia.
Books related to Georgia's history and culture
(Fulltext; mostly 19th-early 20th c.) - Scott Thompson (ed.). "Georgia Authors". Gecko's Georgia. Archived from the original on March 15, 2012.
- "Topics: Media: Magazines and Journals", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council
- "Georgia: Arts and Entertainment: Literature". DMOZ. AOL. (Directory ceased in 2017)
