Description: From the late nineteenth-century invention of southern tradition to early twenty-first-century folk artistic creativity, Wilson examines a wide range of cultural expression, including music, literature, folk art, media representations, and religious imagery.
Brief description: CHARLES REAGAN WILSON is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and a professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and author of Baptized in Blood (Georgia).
Review Quotes:
This well-composed and gracefully written volume addresses the cultural history of the American South, especially in its expressions of a distinctive 'southern spirit.' The essays collected here are a testament to a compelling vision of that spirit . . . No one has done more to define and promote cultural studies of the American South than Charles Reagan Wilson.
--Journal of Southern Religion