
Serpent in Eden
H. L. Mencken and the South
Fred C. Hobson Jr.(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 30. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-0-8078-9687-7 (ISBN)
Description
The appearance in 1920 of H. L. Mencken's scathing essay about the intellectual and cultural impoverishment of the South, ""The Sahara of the Bozart"", set off a firestorm of reaction in the region that continued unabated for much of the next decade. In Serpent in Eden, Mencken scholar Fred Hobson examines Mencken's love-hate relationship with the South. He explores not only Mencken's savage criticism of the region but also his efforts to encourage southern writers and the bold ""little magazines"", such as the Reviewer and the Double Dealer, that started up in the South during the 1920s.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
427 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8078-9687-7 (9780807896877)
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10/2017
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Person
Fred Hobson is professor of American literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-editor of the Southern Literary Journal.