THROUGHOUT THE FIRST THREE DECADES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, Americans became fascinated with places associated with their country’s past. Spanish missions and fortresses in California and Florida; historic architecture and urban districts in colonial era cities; and Revolutionary War and Civil War battlefields—all became places where Americans not only learned about their history but also reaffirmed their cultural identity. Moreover, they looked at history as entertainment. Cultural geographer John Jakle noted that by the 1930s, “History tended to be packaged as contrived attractions” (286). From Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village in Michigan to John D. Rockefeller’s Colonial Williamsburg, heritage1, not history, was commodified, packaged, and sold to American middle-class families, which were more mobile than before, traveling on improved roads in affordable automobiles. Heritage theorist David Lowenthal distinguishes history and heritage, saying, “History explores and explains pasts grown ever more opaque over time; heritage clarifies pasts so as to infuse them with present purposes” (xv). Public historian James Lindgren reminds us that a significant amount of this heritage was fabricated through “personalism”—a feminine-based historic preservation, which was based on a social group’s application of values and beliefs on a historic monument (42). Ann Pamela Cunningham’s Mount Vernon Ladies Association, the
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FAULKNER SCHOLARS HAVE LONG OBSERVED HIS FONDNESS FOR CHOOSING names, both given and surnames, that fit thematically into his works. He frequently gives his aristocratic families the Scots-Irish surnames that populated the antebellum US South. He often follows the plantation tradition of giving classical or biblical names to enslaved people. In some cases, symbolic significance is obvious (Joe Christmas in Light in August ). In others lie deeply buried jokes (for example, Caroline Compson’s maiden name is Bascomb, a name which arrived in England with the Norman Conquest, as did Compson, and which Jason Senior, at least, likely knows means “a valley filled with thistles and burrs”1). Critics have addressed such diverse aspects of Faulkner’s onomastics as consonance and alliteration (Candace/candle2), biblical allusions (Benjamin Compson, Candace Compson, Abner Snopes3), and literary sources (Jason Compson4). In As I Lay Dying, some of the minor characters bear names with symbolic or historical importance. Cliff Staebler explores the relationship of Vernon Tull to the historical figure of Jethro Tull, who perfected the horse-drawn seed drill and revolutionized tenant farming. Cora’s name denotes her sense that she is unloved by Addie in the resonances of Cora and coral, the stuff of inexpensive jewelry versus the true Jewel. The Bundren’s family name, as many have observed,
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{"title":"Vulnerable Youth in Richard Wright’s Protest Fiction","authors":"Claire E. Lenviel","doi":"10.1353/mss.2020.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2020.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"73 1","pages":"121 - 141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/mss.2020.0013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41440213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IN THE MILLER OF OLD CHURCH, PUBLISHED IN 1911 AND SET IN HER native Virginia where time all but stands still, Ellen Glasgow uses the voice of Abel Revercomb to verbalize what she sees as the southern malady and the blighted legacy of the Old South. Abel, the eponymous miller, observes of Old Church, and by extension of the South, that “[t]he world he moved in was peopled by a race of beings that acted under ideal laws and measured up to an impossible standard” (164). The ideal laws and impossible standards that form an inextricable part of the southern mythology center on the conception of aristocratic heritage as a staple of southern identity and police the behavior of men and women. None can escape conformity, and Glasgow’s characters’ struggles to imitate or elevate themselves to the vaunted archetype become lost causes predetermined by the very inaccessibility of the standards they wish to emulate. Although Glasgow was not immune to the “imperishable charm,” she never tired of exposing the debilitating effect of the Old South mythology on growth and progress, opining that what the South needed to reinvigorate itself was “blood and irony”—blood because it “was satisfied to exist on borrowed ideas” and irony because it is “the safest antidote to sentimental decay” (A Certain Measure 12, 28). James Branch Cabell, her contemporary and fellow Richmonder, responded to Glasgow’s call for exposing the pernicious influence of Old South sentimentalism and its stale ideal of aristocratic descent on the conception of southern identity. The result, an ambiguous and ironic novel, Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice, was published in 1919.1 It is
{"title":"James Branch Cabell’s Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice: A Reappraisal","authors":"I. Hopkins","doi":"10.1353/mss.2020.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mss.2020.0014","url":null,"abstract":"IN THE MILLER OF OLD CHURCH, PUBLISHED IN 1911 AND SET IN HER native Virginia where time all but stands still, Ellen Glasgow uses the voice of Abel Revercomb to verbalize what she sees as the southern malady and the blighted legacy of the Old South. Abel, the eponymous miller, observes of Old Church, and by extension of the South, that “[t]he world he moved in was peopled by a race of beings that acted under ideal laws and measured up to an impossible standard” (164). The ideal laws and impossible standards that form an inextricable part of the southern mythology center on the conception of aristocratic heritage as a staple of southern identity and police the behavior of men and women. None can escape conformity, and Glasgow’s characters’ struggles to imitate or elevate themselves to the vaunted archetype become lost causes predetermined by the very inaccessibility of the standards they wish to emulate. Although Glasgow was not immune to the “imperishable charm,” she never tired of exposing the debilitating effect of the Old South mythology on growth and progress, opining that what the South needed to reinvigorate itself was “blood and irony”—blood because it “was satisfied to exist on borrowed ideas” and irony because it is “the safest antidote to sentimental decay” (A Certain Measure 12, 28). James Branch Cabell, her contemporary and fellow Richmonder, responded to Glasgow’s call for exposing the pernicious influence of Old South sentimentalism and its stale ideal of aristocratic descent on the conception of southern identity. The result, an ambiguous and ironic novel, Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice, was published in 1919.1 It is","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"73 1","pages":"143 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/mss.2020.0014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49388794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faulkner's War Stories: World War I and the Origins of Yoknapatawpha","authors":"D. Davis","doi":"10.1353/MSS.2020.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/MSS.2020.0008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"73 1","pages":"17 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/MSS.2020.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45103467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making the \"New Death\" New: A Fable and Faulkner's Revisit to World War I","authors":"A. Marutani","doi":"10.1353/MSS.2020.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/MSS.2020.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"73 1","pages":"71 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/MSS.2020.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45621144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Two rotten tricks\": War and Sex in Soldiers' Pay","authors":"K. Fujie","doi":"10.1353/MSS.2020.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/MSS.2020.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35190,"journal":{"name":"MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY","volume":"73 1","pages":"35 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/MSS.2020.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45615732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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