Tennessee literature

The literature of Tennessee in the United States includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include James Agee, Shelby Foote, Caroline Gordon, Cormac McCarthy, Mary Noailles Murfree, John Crowe Ransom, T. S. Stribling, Allen Tate and Peter Taylor.^[1]

History

A printing press began operating in Rogersville in 1791.^[2]

In 1854 the Methodist Publishing House relocated to Nashville from Philadelphia.^[3]^[4]

Mary Noalles Murfree (1850–1922) published under the pseudonym "Charles Egbert Craddock". Her In the Tennessee Mountains (1884) became a bestseller, featuring "stories of the Tennessee hill country".^[5]

In the 1920s the Fugitives, a group of poets, was based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Also at Vanderbilt in the 1920s-1930s were the Southern Agrarians, unofficially led by John Crowe Ransom.^[6]

References

^ Ensor 2009.
^ Wroth, Lawrence C. (1938). "Diffusion of Printing". The Colonial Printer (2nd revised ed.). Southworth-Anthoensen Press. p. 15. OCLC 2490245.
^ Hillinger, Charles (May 28, 1986). "Nashville: Publishing Bibles Is Big Business". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
^ Blodgett, Jan (1997). Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society. Contributions to the Study of Religion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30395-9. OCLC 36147250.
^ Campbell, Donna M. (2006). "Regionalism and Local Color Fiction". In Quirk, Tom; Scharnhorst, Gary (eds.). American History Through Literature, 1870-1920. Vol. 3. Detroit, Michigan: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-31493-8. OCLC 62778245.
^ Young 1981.

Bibliography

Published in 20th century

Knight, Lucian Lamar, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Course XLVII. Tennessee". Library of Southern Literature. Vol. 16. Atlanta, Georgia: Martin and Hoyt. pp. 211–214.
Dershem, Elsie (1921). "Tennessee". An Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company. p. 159. OCLC 3404797.
Federal Writers' Project (1939). "Writers of Tennessee". Tennessee: A Guide to the State. American Guide Series. New York: Viking Press. pp. 145–154. OCLC 2479491.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
Harkness, David James (1950). "Tennessee in Recent Books, Music, and Drama". University of Tennessee Newsletter. 29 (1). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee. OCLC 7802323.
Ballentine, Nelle (1960). A Bibliographical Checklist of Knoxville and Memphis Imprints, 1867-1876. Modern Languages Series. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press. OCLC 23633407.
McClary, Ben Harris (1962). Our Literary Heritage: A Guide for Tennessee in Literature. Athens, Tennessee: Tennessee Wesleyan College. OCLC 16627482.
Tennessee Council of Teachers of English (1969). Poets in Tennessee: Fifteen Biographical Notes. Martin, Tennessee: University of Tennessee at Martin. OCLC 29892526.
Hearne, Mary Glenn (1974). Authors of Nashville and Davidson County. Nashville Authors Series. Nashville, Tennessee: Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County. OCLC 8359523.
Warren, John William; McClaren, Adrian W. (1977). Tennessee Belles-Lettres: A Guide to Tennessee Literature. Morristown, Tennessee: Morrison Printing. OCLC 749619227.
Young, Thomas Daniel (1981). Tennessee Writers. Tennessee Three Star Books (1st ed.). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-87049-320-1. OCLC 7276903.
Burton, Linda, ed. (1983). Stories from Tennessee (1st ed.). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-376-0. OCLC 8763191.
Willbanks, Ray, ed. (1984). Literature of Tennessee. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. ISBN 0-86554-139-6. OCLC 10998838.
Paschall, Douglas; Swanson, Alice, eds. (1986). Homewords: A Book of Tennessee Writers (1st ed.). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-494-5. OCLC 12805392.
Tickle, Phyllis; Swanson, Alice, eds. (1996). Homeworks: A Book of Tennessee Writers (1st ed.). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-942-4. OCLC 612092258.
Akin, Nat, ed. (1996). A Tennessee Landscape, People, and Places: 1996 Tennessee Writers Alliance Anthology (1st ed.). Franklin, Tennessee: Cool Springs Press. ISBN 1-888608-32-3. OCLC 36921475.

Published in 21st century

Flora, Joseph M.; MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick; Taylor, Todd, eds. (2002). "Literature of Tennessee". The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2692-6. OCLC 47054674.
Ensor, Allison (2009). "Literature". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. University of Tennessee Press.
Margaret Renkl (July 9, 2018), "What Is a Southern Writer, Anyway?", New York Times

External links

Bibliography of Tennessee Bibliographies by the Tennessee Secretary of State (includes "Literature" section)
Tennessee Authors of Adult Fiction, Poetry & Drama: 1970s - Present by the Tennessee Secretary of State
Literary Landmarks by State: Tennessee by the American Library Association
Research Guides: Tennessee Authors (Special Collections) by the University of Tennessee

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[FOOTNOTEEnsor2009-1] Ensor 2009.

[wroth1938-2] Wroth, Lawrence C. (1938). "Diffusion of Printing". The Colonial Printer (2nd revised ed.). Southworth-Anthoensen Press. p. 15. OCLC 2490245.

[3] Hillinger, Charles (May 28, 1986). "Nashville: Publishing Bibles Is Big Business". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 13, 2017.

[Blodgett1997-4] Blodgett, Jan (1997). Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society. Contributions to the Study of Religion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30395-9. OCLC 36147250.

[Campbell2006-5] Campbell, Donna M. (2006). "Regionalism and Local Color Fiction". In Quirk, Tom; Scharnhorst, Gary (eds.). American History Through Literature, 1870-1920. Vol. 3. Detroit, Michigan: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-31493-8. OCLC 62778245.

[FOOTNOTEYoung1981-6] Young 1981.

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