Authors > Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (1923-)

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Articles: (49)

• "H. L. Mencken of the Baltimore Sunpapers" VQR, 71 (Spring 1995), 189-209.
• "Cleanth Brooks: A Memory" SR, 103 (Spring 1995), 265-280.
• "An Honorable Profession: H. L. Mencken and the News" Menckeniana, No. 131 (Fall 1994), 1-11.
• "The Gathering of the Fugitives: A Recollection" SoR, 30 (Fall 1994), 658-673.
• "Versions of the Kingfish" SR, 101 (Fall 1993), 622-636.
• "The Mencken Mystery" SR, 99 (Summer 1991), 445-463.
• "W. J. Cash After Fifty Years" VQR, 67 (Spring 1991), 214-228.
• "From Pachuta to the World: The Lowdown on Thomas Daniel Young", in: The Vanderbilt Tradition: Essays in Honor of Thomas Daniel Young, ed Mark Royden Winchell.
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991, pp. xiii-xx.
• "Charleston, the Place and the People" MissQ, 44 (Winter 1990-91), 83-93.
• "Review of The Kenyon Review, 1939-1970: A Critical History" KR, n.s., 12 (Summer 1990), 150-153.
• "From Combray to Ithaca; Or, The ` Southernness ' of Southern Literature" VQR, 66 (Winter 1990), 47-63.
• "The Way It Was With Southern Literary Study: A Reminiscence" MissQ, 43 (Spring 1990), 147-162.
• "Walker Percy, 1916-1990" SLJ, 23 (Fall 1990), 5-7.
• "The High Sheriff of Yoknapatawpha County: A Study in the Genius of Place", in: Faulkner and Popular Culture: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1988, ed Doreen Fowler Ann J. Abadie.
  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990, pp. 242-264.
• "Thomas Wolfe: Homage Renewed" SR, 97 (Spring 1989), 261-276.
• "Simms, Charleston, and the Profession of Letters", in: "Long Years of Neglect": The Work and Reputation of William Gilmore Simms (Essays in Honor of Thomas Cary Duncan Eaves), ed John Caldwell Guilds.
  Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988, 217-233.
• "The Romance of the Colonial Frontier: Simms, Cooper, the Indians, and the Wilderness", in: American Letters and the Historical Consciousness: Essays in Honor of Lewis P. Simpson, ed J. Gerald Kennedy Daniel Mark Fogel.
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1988, 112-136.
• "Robert Penn Warren: Critic", in: A Southern Renascence Man, ed Walter B. Edgar.
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1984, pp. 19-37.
• "The Mockingbird in the Gum Tree: Notes on the Language of American Literature" SoR, 19 (Autumn 1983), 785-801.
• "Two Books of Thomas Wolfe Correspondence, and Some Thoughts on Scholarship" SLJ, 16 (Fall 1983), 3-10.
• "A Colonial Cultural Economy" SLJ, 15 (Spring 1983), 3-6.
• "A Virginian in Poictesme", in: James Branch Cabell: Centennial Essays, ed M. Thomas Inge Edgar E. MacDonald.
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1983, pp. 1-16.
• "Scholarship in Southern Literature: Its History and Recent Developments" ASInt, (April 1983), 3-33.
• "Review of The Autobiography of an American Novelist" RALS, 12 (Autumn 1982), 237-239.
• "Trouble on the Land: Southern Literature and the Great Depression", in: Literature at the Barricades: The American Writer in the 1930's, ed Ralph F. Bogardus Fred Hobson.
  University: University of Alabama Press, 1982, pp. 96-113.
• "Art and Artistry in Morgana, Mississippi" MissR, 4 (Summer 1981), 101-116.
• "C. Hugh Holman (1914-1981)" SLJ, 14 (Fall 1981), 3-7.
• "Thomas Wolfe and the Place He Came From", in: Literary Romanticism in America, ed William L. Andrews.
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1981, pp. 61-79.
• "Introduction", in: The American South: Portrait of a Culture, ed Louis D. Rubin, Jr..
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980, pp. 3-23.
• "Mark Twain's South: Tom and Huck", in: The American South: Portrait of a Culture, ed Louis D. Rubin, Jr..
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980, pp. 190-205.
• "The Boll Weevil, the Iron Horse, and the End of the Line: Thoughts on the South", in: The American South: Portrait of a Culture, ed Louis D. Rubin, Jr..
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980, pp. 346-371.
• "A Study in Pastoral and History" GHQ, 59 (Winter 1975), 442-454.
• "The Begum of Bengal: Mark Twain and the South", in: Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction, ed K. H. Baldwin D. K. Kirby.
  Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1975, pp. 64-93.
• "The Wary Fugitive John Crowe Ransom" SR, 82 (Fall 1974), 582-618.
• "The Other Side of Slavery: Thomas Nelson Page's `No Haid Pawn.'" SLitI, 7 (Spring 1974), 95-99.
• "Looking Backward" NewR, 17 (Oct. 19, 1974), 20-22.
• "Uncle Remus and the Ubiquitous Rabbit" SoR, 10 (Autumn 1974), 787-804.
• "`The Barber Kept on Shaving': The Two Perspectives of American Humor" SR, 81 (Autumn 1973), 691-713.
• "The Great American Joke" SAQ, 72 (Winter 1973), 82-94.
• "Thomas Wolfe Once Again" NCHR, 50 (Spring 1973), 169-189.
• "Dreiser and Meet Me in the Green Glen: A Vintage Year for Robert Penn Warren" HC, 9 (April 1972), 1-10.
• "How Mark Twain Threw Off His Inhibitions and Discovered the Vitality of Formless Form" SR, 79 (Summer 1971), 426-433.
• "Three Installments of Mark Twain" SR, 78 (Autumn 1970), 678-684.
• "EVerything Brought Out in the Open: Eudora Welty's Losing Battles" HC, 7 (June 1970), 1-12.
• "Southern Local Color and the Black Man" SoR, 6 (Autumn 1970), 1011-1030.
• "Southern Literature: A Piedmont Art" MissQ, 23 (Winter 1969-70), 1-16.
• "The Division of the Heart: Cable's The Grandissimes" SLJ, 1 (Spring 1969), 27-47.
• "Mark Twain: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", in: Landmarks of American Writing, ed Hennig Cohe.
  New York: Basic Books, 1969, pp. 157-171.
• "The Poetry of Beatrice Ravenel" SCR, 1 (November 1968), 55-75.

Books: (15)

• The Mockingbird in the Gum Tree: A Literary Gallimaufry
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.
• The Edge of the Swamp: A Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
• Foreword: Asa Bart's Way, Tournament, 2nd ed
  Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 1987.
• Mannerhouse: A Play in a Prologue and Four Acts
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1985.
• The American South: Portrait of a Culture
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980.
• William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1975.
• Black Poetry in America: Two Essays in Historical Interpretation
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1974.
• Thomas Wolfe Twentieth Century Views
  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
• Southern Literary Study: Problems and Possibilities
  Chapel Hill: Univ of North Carolina Press, 1972.
• The Writer in the South: Studies in a Literary Community
  Athens: Univ of Georgia Press, 1972.
• Southern Writing: 1585-1920
  New York: Odyssey, 1970.
• A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature
  Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ Press, 1969.
• George W. Cable: The Life and Times of a Southern Heretic
  Pegasus American Authors Series. New York: Pegasus, 1969.
• The Yemassee Lands: Poems of Beatrice Ravenel
  Chapel Hill: Univ of North Carolina Press, 1969.
• The Comic Imagination in American Literature
  New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ Press, 1963.

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