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.