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The Kentucky anthology : two hundred years of writing in the Bluegrass State

For over two hundred years, Kentucky has inspired many of the nation's finest writers, both natives of the Bluegrass State and outsiders who were entranced by its rich natural wonders and culture. Now, for the first time, celebrated Kentucky literary historian Wade Hall has assembled a comprehensive collection of writings embodying the hopes, concerns, and aspirations that have made the state unique and yet so typically American. Hunters, soldiers, adventurers, tourists, farmers, lawyers, preachers, educators, journalists, historians, playwrights, poets, and novelists offer readers an unparall
eBook, English, ©2005
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, ©2005
Literary collections
1 online resource (xv, 880 pages)
9780813128993, 9780813138442, 9781283232449, 9786613232441, 0813128994, 0813138442, 1283232448, 6613232440
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Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; When Kentucky Was Wilderness; John Filson; Colonel James Smith; George Rogers Clark; Thomas Perkins; Gilbert Imlay; Christian Schultz; John James Audubon; Robert Emmett McDowell; Jude Deveraux; Carolyn Lott Monohan; Charles Dickens; The Scourges of Slavery and Civil War; Alexis de Tocqueville; William Wells Brown; Josiah Henson; Harry Smith; Milton Clarke; Jefferson Davis; Abraham Lincoln; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Clara Rising; Alfred Leland Crabb; Charles Bracelen Flood; Allen Tate. Politicians, Teachers, Preachers, and Occasional PoetsJulia A. Tevis; Henry Clay; J. Proctor Knott; Henry Watterson; Amelia B. Welby; William Shakespeare Hays; Thomas Johnson Jr.; William F. Marvin; William O. Butler; Henry T. Stanton; Theodore O'Hara; Untitled; James Lane Allen; John Fox Jr.; Annie Fellows Johnston; Alice Hegan Rice; Virginia Cary Hudson; John Uri Lloyd; Eliza Calvert Hall; Irvin S. Cobb; Lucy Furman; James H. Mulligan; Robert Burns Wilson; Joseph S. Cotter Sr.; Madison Cawein; Cale Young Rice; From Arnow to Warren; Elizabeth Madox Roberts; Caroline Gordon; Ben Lucien Burman. Harriette Simpson ArnowRobert Penn Warren; James Still; Jesse Stuart; Janice Holt Giles; Gwen Davenport; Thomas Merton; Elizabeth Hardwick; Hollis Summers; Cordia Greer Petrie; John Jacob Niles; Edwin Carlile Litsey; Sarah Litsey; Cotton Noe; Olive Tilford Dargan; The Contemporary Kentucky Writer; Billy C. Clark; Walter Tevis; Ed McClanahan; Pat Carr; Jane Stuart; Leon Driskell; Martha Bennett Stiles; Wendell Berry; Gurney Norman; Sallie Bingham; Sue Grafton; Hal Charles; Bobbie Ann Mason; Joe Ashby Porter; Sena Jeter Naslund; Lucinda Dixon Sullivan; Michael Dorris; Linda Bruckheimer. Ralph CottonGayl Jones; George Ella Lyon; John Hay; Silas House; Dwight Allen; Crystal Wilkinson; Barbara Kingsolver; Chris Holbrook; Gayle Compton; Chris Offutt; The Dramatic Tradition in Kentucky; John Patrick; Marsha Norman; Jane Martin; George C. Wolfe; Mary Anderson; Contemporary Nonfiction; Thomas D. Clark; John Fetterman; Kathy Kahn; Patricia Neal; Verna Mae Slone; Linda Scott DeRosier; Harry M. Caudill; David Dick; Muhammad Ali, with Richard Durham; Virginia Honchell Jewell; Jo Anna Holt Watson; Harlan Hubbard; Hunter S. Thompson; Guy Davenport; Joseph Phelps; Paul Quenon. Abraham FlexnerAlanna Nash; Wade Hall; Anne McCarty Braden; Gerogia Davis Powers; Cass Irvin; Fenton Johnson; Jerry Brewer; A Shower of Poets; Albert Stewart; John Filiatreau; Betty Layman Receveur; Jonathan Greene; Miriam Woolfolk; Aleda Shirley; Virginia Pile; Jeffrey Skinner; Lee Pennington; Leonard Slade; Catherine Sutton; Frank X Walker; Jane Mayhall; Ron Seitz; R. Meir Morton; Jane Gentry; Eve Spears; Woodridge Spears; Quentin Howard; Lillie D. Chaffin; Carolyn Wilford Fuqua; Reid Bush; Bruce Bennett Brown; Jim Wayne Miller; Logan English; Maureen Morehead; Cora Lucas; Leatha Kendrick
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