South Carolina literature
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The literature of South Carolina, United States, includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include Dorothy Allison, Daniel Payne and William Gilmore Simms.[1][2]
History
A printing press began operating in Charleston in 1731.[3]
Literary figures of the antebellum period included Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830-1886), James Matthews Legaré (1823-1859), William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), Henry Timrod (1829-1867).[4] The Southern Review was published in Charleston from 1828 through 1832.[5] The Carolina Housewife cookbook was published in Charleston in 1847.[6]
In the 1920s Julia Peterkin (1880-1961) wrote about the Gullah.[7] DuBose Heyward's (1885-1940) 1925 novel Porgy "explored interactions among the black residents of Charleston's Catfish Row."[7]
The South Carolina Review literary journal was founded at Furman University in Greenville in 1968, later moving to Clemson University.[8]
Organizations
The Poetry Society of South Carolina began in Charleston in 1920.[8] The Spartanburg Hub City Writers Project launched in 1995.[8]
See also
- Category:Writers from South Carolina
- List of newspapers in South Carolina
- Category:South Carolina in fiction
- Category:Libraries in South Carolina
- Southern United States literature
- American literary regionalism
References
- ↑ Federal Writers' Project 1941.
- ↑ Compton 2001.
- ↑ Lawrence C. Wroth (1938), "Diffusion of Printing", The Colonial Printer, Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press – via Internet Archive (Fulltext)
- ↑ Charles Reagan Wilson; William Ferris, eds. (1989). "Antebellum Era". Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0807818232 – via "Documenting the American South".
- ↑ Richard J. Calhoun (2008). "Periodicals". In M. Thomas Inge. Literature. New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. 9. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 107–111. OCLC 910189354.
- ↑ "Introduction", Feeding America: the Historic American Cookbook Project, Michigan State University, retrieved March 13, 2017
- 1 2 Emory Elliott, ed. (1991). Columbia History of the American Novel. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07360-8.
- 1 2 3 "South Carolina Encyclopedia". University of South Carolina. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
Bibliography
- Lucian Lamar Knight, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: South Carolina". Library of Southern Literature. 16. Atlanta: Martin and Hoyt Company. p. 207+ – via HathiTrust.
- Elsie Dershem (1921). "South Carolina". Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company – via Internet Archive.
- Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Literature", South Carolina: a Guide to the Palmetto State, American Guide Series, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, pp. 131–146
- G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-36761-6. (Includes information about South Carolina literature)
- Thorne Compton (2001). "Literature of South Carolina". In Joseph M. Flora; Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan. Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Louisiana State University Press. pp. 815–823. ISBN 978-0-8071-2692-9.
External links
- "South Carolina: Arts and Entertainment: Literature". DMOZ. AOL. (Directory ceased in 2017)
- United for Libraries. "Literary Landmarks by State: South Carolina". Chicago: American Library Association.
