Voices from the Hills: selected readings of Southern Appalachia / edited by Robert J. Higgs and Ambrose N. Manning; afterword by Jim Wayne Miller. - 2a ed. - Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall / Hunt Publishing Company, 1996. - xx 562 p.: 23cm.

"25th. anniversary edition"(cover)

Include bibliographical referent (p.559-562)

Part I.- Exploration and early travels: First impressions; The land and landscape: a New Eden; The first inhabitants: the noble naturals; The mythical heritage: poor white and hilbilly; Backwoods humor: tall tale and tall talk; Southern romanticism: the sublime and the beautiful; Local color: realism and romance; New dimensions of realism: renaissance in the hills; Uses of the past: the search for identity; Muse of the mountains: Appalachian poetry ---- Part II.- Echoes and reverberations: essays in criticism and culture.

9780787286736 0787286737


American literature--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Dialect literature, American--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Appalachian Region, Southern--Literary collections.
Mountain life--Literary collections.

PS 551 / V889 1996