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• W227623193 abstract "Actually, it makes good sense to review these four writers together, for each has caught a pigeon to put in the pigeonnier at Belle Isle. Each book covers a fairly specific topic; collectively they provide an excellent treatment of the basic movements of And to their credit, most of the time, each carefully maintains the distinction between pigeon and pigeonnier. Nineteenth-Century Literature was written for a series, New Perspectives on the South, Charles P. Roland, general editor. That fact indicates that we should expect a dutiful coverage of major topics, an interpretation based upon critical consensus, and a style that sounds like it--didn't Randall Jarrell say?--was written on a typewriter by a typewriter. To his credit, Mr. Ridgely has given us more--or would it be more complimentary to say less?--than we expected. At any rate, given the givens, the book is fairly successful. It is uneven. Chapter One, New World and the Garden, thirteen of one hundred seventeen pages of text, is given over to the Smith-Pocahontases, as Roxy called them, to William Byrd, to Ebenezer Cook, plus a dozen names. Even with twice the space available, in which to provide a environment that would make these grandsires into southern writers, the chapter would seem to be unnecessary, even downright misleading, in a book on nineteenth-century literature, which simply did not owe much to an earlier Southern literature. Moreover, it seems to me that Chapter Two, Growth of Separatism, is a lost opportunity. In the first place, the title (with subsequent argument) implies that the identity developed only as a reaction to the identity. Yet we have the word of no less a person than Ralph Waldo Emerson that there was not much of an American identity to speak of, in the 1830's. It can be argued that both North and South developed their regional identities in the early years of the century, each thinking of itself as the authentic America and of the other as the deviant. Perhaps part of the ferocious and uncompromising North-South hostility has always stemmed from the rivalry of brothers for a birthright and a blessing. In the second place, the chapter is mostly about The Literary Messenger, but why it is, is not very clear. It may very well be the microcosm that explains the tribulations of the literary establishment in the face of an indifferent public, but even so, too much space is given over to details. When he gets to Romance and Way of Life Ridgely finally seems to enjoy what he is doing. Having written books on Simms and Kennedy, he deals quite well with the Janus-effort of the romancers, both to specify an elaborate closed system toward which the South should strive and to assert that such a millennial achievement would be the return to Lost Eden. At this point, as abrupt as this sentence, five pages of pretty standard stuff on Southwestern humor ambush the reader. The book improves as literary history when the War and the New South are treated, probably because there are few texts analyzed. Ridgely can go ahead and generalize; which, in a work of this kind, seems to be the thing to do. There is one gloss, of which would be rather unhelpful to someone who had never read the story. The appellation Chan is, of course, Lawyer Page's patronizing description of a old black man's attempt at Master Channing. Yet this fact is never acknowledged, and the dead Confed is referred to as Marse Chan, without the quotes. (And even Chan, without the servility.) The result is that a dutiful son could become a Number One Son for a cramming undergraduate. The point is not picky: the audience most likely to use this book, those who intend to get no closer to literature than reading about it, is not being considered here. Now to broaden out--that goes for the whole book: not enough clear generalization and summary, too many details. …" @default.
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