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The House of Percy

Author : Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198022301
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The House of Percy written by Bertram Wyatt-Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-21 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Two centuries of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and sometimes suicide established a fascinating legacy that lies behind Walker Percy's acclaimed prose and profound insight into the human condition. In The House of Percy, Bertram Wyatt-Brown masterfully interprets the life of this gifted family, drawing out the twin themes of an inherited inclination to despondency and an abiding sense of honor. The Percy family roots in Mississippi and Louisiana go back to "Don Carlos" Percy, an eighteenth-century soldier of fortune who amassed a large estate but fell victim to mental disorder and suicide. Wyatt-Brown traces the Percys through the slaveholding heyday of antebellum Natchez, the ravages of the Civil War (which produced the heroic Colonel William Alexander Percy, the "Gray Eagle"), and a return to prominence in the Mississippi Delta after Reconstruction. In addition, the author recovers the tragic lives and literary achievements of several Percy-related women, including Sarah Dorsey, a popular post-Civil War novelist who horrified her relatives by befriending Jefferson Davis--a married man--and bequeathing to him her plantation home, Beauvoir, along with her entire fortune. Wyatt-Brown then chronicles the life of Senator LeRoy Percy, whose climactic re-election loss in 1911 to a racist demagogue deply stung the family pride, but inspired his bold defiance to the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. The author goes on to tell the poignant story of poet and war hero Will Percy, the Senator's son. The weight of this family narrative found expression in Will Percy's memoirs, Lanterns on the Levee--and in the works of Walker Percy, who was reared in his cousin Will's Greenville home after the suicidal death of Walker's father and his mother's drowning. As the biography of a powerful dynasty, steeped in Sou8thern traditions and claims to kinship with English nobility, The House of Percy shows the interrelationship of legend, depression, and grand achievement. Written by a leading scholar of the South, it weaves together intensive research and thoughtful insights into a riveting, unforgettable story.

Reading Walker Percy's Novels

Author : Jessica Hooten Wilson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807168793
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Reading Walker Percy's Novels written by Jessica Hooten Wilson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walker Percy (1916–1990) considered novels the strongest tool with which to popularize great ideas among a broad audience, and, more than half a century after they first appeared in print, his works of fiction continue to fascinate contemporary readers. Despite their lasting appeal, however, Percy’s engaging narratives also contain intellectual elements that demand further explication. Philosophical themes, including existentialism, language acquisition theory, and modern Catholic theology, provide a deeper layer of meaning in Percy’s writings. Jessica Hooten Wilson’s Reading Walker Percy’s Novels serves as a companion guide for readers who enjoy Percy’s novels but may be less familiar with the works of Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, and Dante. In addition to clarifying Percy’s philosophies, Wilson highlights allusions to other writers within his narratives, addresses historical and political contexts, and provides insight into the creation and reception of The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, Love in the Ruins, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome. An introduction covers aspects of Percy’s biography that influenced his writing, including his deep southern roots, faith, and search for meaning in life. An appendix offers an explanation of Percy’s satirical parody Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book. Written in an accessible and conversational style, this primer will appeal to everyone who appreciates the nuances of Walker Percy’s fiction.

William Alexander Percy

Author : Benjamin E. Wise
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807869953
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book William Alexander Percy written by Benjamin E. Wise and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist. We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around the globe and, always, back again to the Delta. Wise's exploration brings depth and new meaning to Percy's already compelling life story--his prominent family's troubled history, his elite education and subsequent soldiering in World War I, his civic leadership during the Mississippi River flood of 1927, his mentoring of writers Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, and the writing and publication of his classic autobiography, Lanterns on the Levee. This biography sets Percy's life and search for meaning in the context of his history in the Deep South and his experiences in the gay male world of the early twentieth century. In Wise's hands, these seemingly disparate worlds become one.

Peculiar Crossroads

Author : Farrell O'Gorman
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807133354
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Peculiar Crossroads written by Farrell O'Gorman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic authors bequeathed a postmodern South of shopping malls and interstates imbued with as much meaning as Appomattox or Yoknapatawpha. O'Gorman builds his argument with biographical, historical, literary, and theological evidence, examining the writers' work through intriguing pairings, such as O'Connor's Wise Blood with Percy's The Moviegoer, and O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find with Percy's Lancelot. An impeccable exercise in literary history and criticism, Peculiar Crossroads renders a genuine understanding of the Catholic sensibility of both O'Connor and Percy and their influence among contemporary southern writers.

Searching for a Silver Lining

Author : Miranda Dickinson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 144727606X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Searching for a Silver Lining written by Miranda Dickinson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both heartbreaking and affirming, Miranda Dickinson's Searching for a Silver Lining is perfect for fans of Cecilia Ahern and JoJo Moyes. Matilda Bell is left heartbroken when she falls out with her beloved grandfather just before he dies. Haunted by regret, she makes a promise that will soon change everything . . . When spirited former singing star Reenie Silver enters her life, Mattie seizes the opportunity to make amends. Together, Mattie and Reenie embark on an incredible journey that will find lost friends, uncover secrets from the glamorous 1950s and put right a sixty-year wrong. Touchingly funny, warm and life-affirming, this is a sparkling story of second chances. Perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern, Searching for a Silver Lining by Miranda Dickinson will take you on a trip you'll never forget.

Walker Percy

Author : William Rodney Allen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617035357
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Walker Percy written by William Rodney Allen and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1986 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Southern Strategies

Author : Michael Odom
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1643364669
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Southern Strategies written by Michael Odom and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how literary strategies illuminate the evangelical foundation of Southern culture. In Southern Strategies: Narrative Negotiation in an Evangelical Region, Michael Odom argues that through the narrative strategies of resistance, satire, and negotiation, a multigenerational group of twentieth-century white Southern writers provides unique insight into the central role evangelical religion has played in shaping the sociopolitical culture of the American South. Odom investigates how, in landmark works of nonfiction published in the 1940s, W. J. Cash and Lillian Smith confront both the racist culture of their time and the religious institutions that enabled white supremacy to flourish; in novels from the 1950s and '60s, insider–outsider Catholic writers Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy satirize American consumption and the antithetical imperative of evangelical Christianity subsumed within the same culture; and, in 1990s works of fiction and nonfiction, Doris Betts and Dennis Covington engage evangelical religion with curiosity and compassion, redefining spirituality with the aim of providing a sense of community, vision, and selfhood. Southern Strategies concludes with an analysis of contemporary responses to the evangelical activism that animates the base of American conservatism today.

Harlequin Medical Romance October 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2

Author : Charlotte Hawkes
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488067031
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Harlequin Medical Romance October 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2 written by Charlotte Hawkes and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlequin Medical Romance brings you a collection of three new titles, available now! Enjoy these stories packed with pulse-racing romance and heart-racing medical drama. This Harlequin Medical Romance box set includes: SECOND CHANCE WITH HIS ARMY DOC Reunited on the Frontline By Charlotte Hawkes After fourteen years, Kane has just reentered Mattie’s life…and he’s determined to convince Mattie it’s finally time for their happy ever after! REAWAKENED BY HER ARMY MAJOR Reunited on the Frontline By Charlotte Hawkes When shy nurse Bridget meets army major Hayden she’s enticed! Still, it’s having to work together under fire, that brings them closer…. TEMPTED BY THE HEART SURGEON By Lucy Ryder A new job is Boston socialite Sam’s chance to escape her broken engagement. But it reunites her with Adam—the surgeon she’s tried to forget!

The Percys of Mississippi

Author : Lewis Baker
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807125137
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book The Percys of Mississippi written by Lewis Baker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the twilight years of southern aristocracy, The Percys of Mississippi is a biography of a family in whose bloodline ran both a strong commitment to public service and an equally strong but more private dedication to literature. Following four generations of Percy family history, Lewis Baker chronicles the lives and public careers of Colonel William Alexander Percy, a planter and lawyer; his son LeRoy, a lawyer and United States Senator; LeRoy’s son Will, a poet and lawyer; and Will’s nephew and adopted son, the novelist Walker Percy. Known as the “gray eagle of the delta” for his piercing eyes and silver hair, Colonel Percy served as a Confederate officer in both the eastern and western campaigns of the Civil War. He returned home to practice law and manage the family’s property, but he was soon drawn into the arena of state politics, where he fought vigorously to strengthen the Mississippi River levee system and to protect his district from the perils of Reconstruction. With Colonel Percy’s death in 1888, LeRoy Percy inherited his father’s law practice and his mantle of leadership in the community. LeRoy used his power as a United States Senator to continue his father’s long quest for an adequate levee system; struggled to loosen the Ku Klux Klan’s grip of fear on the delta; and campaigned tirelessly to discredit the divisive creed of the state’s rising demagogue politicians. In the election of 1911, LeRoy Percy was defeated in his bid to be returned to the Senate, losing to the flamboyant demagogue James Kimble Vardaman, the “White Chief.” It was a defeat echoed across the South throughout the dawning years of the twentieth century, as poorer whites rejected the moderate counsel of the planter class, their traditional leaders, and embraced the demagogues’ fiery gospel of resentment. It was this troubling, altered South that LeRoy Percy bequeathed to his son William Alexander. Will Percy fought in World War I, taught for a time, and stood at his father’s side throughout many of the battles to safeguard the delta from extremism. But Will’s true calling was as a poet, and his lasting contribution to the delta would be in the form of a memorial to its past—his memoir Lanterns on the Levee. “During my day,” he wrote Will Percy not long before his death, “ I have witnessed the disintegration of that moral cohesion of the South which had given it its strength and its sons their singleness of purpose and simplicity.” It would be left to Walker Percy to fully confont htis modern, disintegrated South; to seek in such works as The Moviegoer, The Last Gentleman, and The Second Coming the place of the Percy family’s values in a world that has little use for aristocrats.

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia

Author : West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 934 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia written by West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On The Wings Of Autumn

Author : Stephanie Roberts
Publisher : Australian Self Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book On The Wings Of Autumn written by Stephanie Roberts and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephanie, a successful entrepreneur in Australia, who has been married to Robert for ten years, returns to her homeland of India. There she becomes embroiled in a unique love triangle. There is an unexpected re-union with Tics, once the ‘love of her life’, who resurfaces and emerges as the healing force for her dog. In addition, she has to grapple with her conflicted love for her ailing husband, Robert, and her deep and abiding love for her beloved dog Truman who is dying of liver cancer. What will become of Truman’s fragile life in an effort to save his human father? Tru’s life is in jeopardy. To compound matters, Stephanie finds that she must go back to Australia to care for her sick husband, Robert. Can she leave Tics? What will become of their rekindled love?

Leaders of Their Race

Author : Sarah H. Case
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252099842
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Leaders of Their Race written by Sarah H. Case and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative processes involved at two Georgia schools--one in Atlanta for African-American girls and young women, the other in Athens and attended by young white women with elite backgrounds. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, Case's analysis shows how race, gender, sexuality, and region worked within these institutions to shape education. Her comparative approach shines a particular light on how female education embodied the complex ways racial and gender identity functioned at the time. As she shows, the schools cultivated modesty and self-restraint to protect the students. Indeed, concerns about female sexuality and respectability united the schools despite their different student populations. Case also follows the lives of the women as adult teachers, alumnae, and activists who drew on their education to negotiate the New South's economic and social upheavals.

Wingless Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and Pilgrim Wayfarers

Author : L. Lamar Nisly
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 0881462144
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Wingless Chickens, Bayou Catholics, and Pilgrim Wayfarers written by L. Lamar Nisly and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flannery O'Connor, Tim Gautreaux, and Walker Percy, are all Catholic writers from the South-and seem to embody very fully both parts of that label. Yet as quickly becomes clear in their writing, their fiction employs markedly different tones and modes of addressing their audience. O'Connor seems intent on shocking her reader, whom she anticipates will be hostile to her deepest beliefs. Gautreaux gently and humorously engages his reader, inviting his expected sympathetic audience to embrace the characters' needed moral growth. Percy satirically lampoons an array of social ills and failings in the Church, as he tries to get his audience laughing with him while he makes his deadly serious point about the flaws he finds in the church and larger culture. Why do these three writers assume such divergent images of their audience? Why do texts by three writers who each embrace their Southern locale and their Catholic beliefs seem to have so little in common? To answer these questions, Nisly helps readers understand these authors' fiction by examining the role that place and time had in shaping each author's idea of an audience-and, by extension, his or her manner of addressing that audience. More specifically, Nisly focuses on each author's experience of Catholic community and each author's placement in relation to the Second Vatican Council. Linking together biographical information and a reading of their fiction, Nisly argues that O'Connor's, Gautreaux's, and Percy's sense of audience has been shaped in significant ways by each author's own local experience of Catholicism in his or her home region as well as the larger, global changes of Vatican II that transformed Roman Catholicism.

Soul Survivor: The Autobiography

Author : P.P. Arnold
Publisher : Nine Eight Books
ISBN 13 : 1788705793
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Soul Survivor: The Autobiography written by P.P. Arnold and published by Nine Eight Books. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize An Uncut Magazine Book of the Year A Rough Trade Book of the Year A Resident Book of the Year The story of soul legend P.P. Arnold is one of musical highs, personal lows and extraordinary endurance. From her origins in powerhouse church gospel, the talented singer's performing career began at the age of just seventeen when she joined the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. But little did the young Ikette know that her world was about to be turned upside-down... Upon arriving in London in 1966 to support the Rolling Stones, the shy but vivacious teenager caught the eye of frontman Mick Jagger. He would persuade her to stay in the city and record as a solo artist, ultimately leading to a five-decade career working with everyone from Rod Stewart, Eric Clapton, the Small Faces, Nick Drake and Barry Gibb to Peter Gabriel, Roger Waters, the KLF, Paul Weller and Primal Scream. However, it has been far from a gilded life for the soul superstar. After being forced into marriage upon becoming pregnant at the age of fifteen, Arnold went on to endure a string of devastating personal traumas. Yet the versatile musician survived it all and has continued to reinvent herself throughout the years -be that as a West End actress, a much-sought-after session singer or a renowned pop vocalist in her own right. Now, for the first time, P.P. Arnold shares her remarkable adventures. This is the long-awaited memoir of a true soul survivor. 'Jaw-dropping.' - Mojo 'Powerful.' - Woman's Hour 'Explosive.' - Daily Mail

Mimic Life

Author : Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mimic Life written by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Walker Percy Remembered

Author : David Horace Harwell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807877484
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Walker Percy Remembered written by David Horace Harwell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walker Percy (1916-1990), the reclusive southern author most famous for his 1961 novel The Moviegoer, spent much of his adult life in Covington, Louisiana. In the spirit of traditional southern storytelling, this biography of Percy takes its shape from candid interviews with his family, close friends, and acquaintances. In thirteen interviews, we get to know Percy through his lifelong friend Shelby Foote, Percy's brothers LeRoy and Phin, his former priest, his housekeeper, and former teachers, among others--all in their own words. Over the course of the interviews, readers learn intimate details of Percy's writing process; his interaction with community members of different ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds; and his commitment to civil rights issues. What emerges is a multidimensional portrait of Percy as a man, a friend, and a family member.

Shelby Foote

Author : C. Stuart Chapman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578069323
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Shelby Foote written by C. Stuart Chapman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography that plumbs the ambiguous life of the gentlemanly novelist and historian For a biographer Shelby Foote is a famously reluctant subject. In writing this biography, however, C. Stuart Chapman gained valuable access through interviews and shared correspondence, an advantage Foote rarely has granted to others. Born into Mississippi Delta gentry in 1916, Foote has engaged in a lifelong struggle with the realities behind his persona, the classic image of the southern gentleman. His polished civil graces mask a conflict deep within. Foote's beloved South is a changing region, and even progressive change, of which Foote approves, can be unsettling. In letters and interviews, and in his writings, he often waxes nostalgic as he grapples to recover the grace of an earlier time, particularly the era of the Civil War. Indeed, Chapman reveals that the whole of Foote's novels and historical narratives serves as a refuge from deeply ambiguous feelings. As Foote has struggled to understand the radical shifts brought to his native land by modernization and the region's integration into the nation, his personal history has been clouded by ideological conflict. This biography shows him pining for aristocratic, antebellum culture while rejecting the practices that made possible the injustices of that era. Privately and vehemently, Foote opposed George C. Wallace's and Ross Barnett's untenable segregationist stance. Yet publicly during the 1960s and '70s he skirted the explosive race issue. Foote is best known for his dazzling and definitive The Civil War: A Narrative. Written from 1954 to 1974, the three-volume opus was published during years when the South exploded with racial and political tensions and was forever changed. This biography recognizes that nowhere are Foote's personal conflicts, ambivalence, and outright contradictions more on display than in his fiction. Although Love in a Dry Season, Jordan County, and September, September are set in the contemporary South, they reach no firm social resolutions. Instead they entertain, dramatize, and come to grips with the social, gender, and racial barriers of the southern life he experienced. While showing how Foote's guarded embrace of the South's past and present characterizes his identity as a thinker, a historian, and a writer of fiction, Chapman discloses Foote's reluctance to address burning contemporary issues and his veiled desire to recall more gracious times. C. Stuart Chapman is a Massachusetts State House aide living in Jamaica Plain. His work has been published in the Clarksdale Press-Register, Memphis Business Journal, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, Jamaica Plain Gazette, Modern Fiction Studies, and other publications.