Transatlantic exchanges : the American South in Europe - Europe in the American South

Acknowledgements . . 9
Introduction . . 11

FAULKNER AND WOLFE
European Culture in Southern Literature: Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner . . 33
The French Faulkner: Visibility, Absence, and Sanctuary's "Lake of Ink' . . 51
Modernist Novellas: European Reflections on Thomas Wolfe's Short Novels . . 69

EUROPEAN RECEPTION AND PERSPECTIVES
Thomas Jefferson's Conflicting Views of Europe . . 91
Southern Literature in Northlight: 20th Century Southern Writers in Norwegian Translation: Reception, Reputation, Affinities . . 103
Antecedents and Trajectories of Two Twentieth-Century Writers from Georgia in Europe . . 115
Hemispheric Parallax: Zora Neale Hurston and the Triangulation of Race . . 137
How Bigger Mutated: Richard Wright, Boris Vian. and "The bloody paths through which we push logic into dread" . . 149
Richard Wright's Pagan Spain: Reading Spain through the American South . . 167

REIMAGINING THE SOUTH FROM A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
A Study in Scarlett O'Hara? The South in the Writings of Arthur Conan Doyle . . 181
'The Formidable Question": James's Transatlantic View of the South . . 207
A Southern Sheriff's Revenge: Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon . . 221

WELTY AND PERCY
A Narrative Room of One's Own: Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom and European Fairy Tale . . 241
The Promiscuous Joy of Eudora Welty: Missing Bowen in Mississippi . . 257
Walker Percy and Eric Voegelin's Political Philosophy . . 277
City of Exiles: Unstable Narratives of New Orleans in George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days . . 293
Paris and New Orleans: The Transatlantic Cultural Legacy of Prostitution . . 309
France and the American South: Transatlantic Misreadings and Mythmaking . . 335

NINETEENTH-CENTURY RELATIONS
Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain's Modernities . . 349
Mark Twain Abroad . . 363
"Whatever the law permits": Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative . . 377

FAULKNER
"Les Amis Myriades et Anonymes a la France de Tout le Monde": Creolite and Empire, Difference and Indifference, in William
Faulkner's A Fable . . 397
War and Modernism in Faulkner's A Fable . . 409
William Faulkner, New Orleans, and Europe . . 419
CULTURAL AND CAPITAL EXCHANGE
Cavaliers and Capitalists: The Transatlantic South from Mercantilism to Mercedes . . 439
Old South/New Britain: Cotton, Capitalism, and Anglo-Southern Relations in the Civil War Era . . 455
European Influence on Pre-Civil War Southern Culture: The Case of South Carolina . . 473
The South in the Age of Nationalism . . 491

MOUNTAIN AND FOLK CULTURE
The Green, Green Hills of Home: Mining in the Fiction of Appalachia and Wales . . 503
Happily Ever After in the Marketplace: The Ballads of the Southern Mountains and the Escape from Old Europe . . 519
Transatlantic Folk Exchanges in 1959 - the Revival Year . . 533

POSTWAR FICTIONS
Slavery Old and New: Styron's Sophie's Choice . . 551
Black Girl in Paris: Shay Youngblood's Escape from "the last plantation" . . 563
Black South, Black Eurooe: William Demby . . 579

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