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• Recent southern fiction: a panel discussion. (Wesleyan College, 1961), by Louis Decimus Rubin and Ga.) Wesleyan College (Macon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of the short story in the South (Michie, 1911), by Robert Cecil Beale (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Southern lights and shadows (Harper & Brothers, 1907), by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recollections of a Southern Matron (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1838), by Caroline Howard Gilman (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Georgia scenes (Carey and Hart, 1845), by Joseph Jones, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, T.K. & P.G. Collins (Firm), and L. Johnson & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

• After Appomattox; the image of the South in its fiction, 1865-1900. (Corinth Books; [distributed by Citadel Press, New York], 1963), by Gene Baro (page images at HathiTrust)
• The big bear of Arkansas, and other sketches, illustrative of characters and incidents in the South and South-west. (AMS Press, 1973), by William Trotter Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern stories ([s.n., 1900), by Charles Edward Nash (page images at HathiTrust)
• The big bear of Arkansas ; and other sketches, illustrative of characters and incidents in the South and South-west (T. B. Peterson, 1843), by William Trotter Porter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Thomas F. Haddox (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Michael O'Brien (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Apocalypse South: Judgment, Cataclysm, and Resistance in the Regional Imaginary (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Anthony Dyer Hoefer (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Living Female Writers of the South (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1872), by Mary T. Tardy
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• Southland Writers: Biographical and Critical Sketches of the Living Female Writers of the South, With Extracts From Their Writings (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger, 1870), by Mary T. Tardy (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston, by Richard Malcolm Johnston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Southern literary studies : a collection of literary, biographical, and other sketches. (Kennikat Press, 1967), by C. Alphonso Smith and Stringfellow Barr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Innocence abroad (A. A. Knopf, 1931), by Emily Clark (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The South in American literature, 1607-1900. (Duke University Press, 1954), by Jay B. Hubbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern literature from 1579-1895; a comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader. (B. F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1895), by Louise Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Segments of southern thoughts (The University of Georgia press, 1938), by Edd Winfield Parks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South in history and literature; a hand-book of southern authors, from the settlement of Jamestown, 1607, to living writers. (The Franklin-Turner company, 1907), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern literary studies : a collection of literary, biographical, and other sketches (The University of North Carolina Press, 1927), by C. Alphonso Smith and Stringfellow Barr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Innocence abroad (A.A. Knopf, 1931), by Emily Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern literature from 1579-1895. A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms. For the use of schools and the general reader. Containing an appendix with a full list of Southern authors. (B. F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1907), by Louise Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social types in southern prose fiction ... (Edwards brothers, 1921), by Marion Clifford Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern literature : its status and outlook : an address delivered before the Ladies' Memorial Association of Montgomery County, Virginia, at the Montgomery White Sulphur Springs, July 10, 1880 (Published by The Association, 1881), by J. B. Wardlaw and J.W. Burke & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern literature--its statut and outlook. (J. W. Burke & co., 1880), by J. B. Wardlaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature of the South (Broadway Publishing co., 1908), by Caroline Mays Brevard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prose and verse. (Franklin Prtg. and Pub. Co., 1901), by John M. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern literature from 1579-1895 : a comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms ; for the use of schools and the general reader, containing an appendix with a full list of Southern authors (B.F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1900), by Louise Manly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern writers: biographical and critical studies. (Publishing house M.E. church, South, 1896), by William Malone Baskervill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern literature. (J.W. Burke & Co., 1890), by J. B. Wardlaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The South in history and literature : a hand-book of southern authors, from the settlement of Jamestown, 1607, to living writers (Franklin-Turner, 1906), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The south must publish her own books : an exposé. (Pub. by the Author, 1928), by William W. Brewton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The development of the short story in the South (Michie, 1911), by Robert Cecil Beale (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revival of interest in Southern letters (B.F. Johnson Pub. Co., 1900), by Charles W. Kent and Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southern Literature From 1579-1895: A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms: for the use of schools and the general reader, by Louise Manly (Gutenberg ebook)
• Literary Hearthstones of Dixie, by La Salle Corbell Pickett (Gutenberg ebook)

• The outlook for literature in the South. A lecture (Lecture committee of the Y.M.C.A., 1892), by Charles William Kent and YMCA (University of Tennessee) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated, by F. V. N. Painter (Gutenberg text)
• Poets of the South: A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies With Typical Poems, Annotated (New York et al.: American Book Co., c1903), by F. V. N. Painter
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• Reflections of the Civil War in southern humor. (University of Florida Press, 1962), by Wade H. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The advance of the English novel (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1916), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The almosts; a study of the feeble-minded (Houghton Mifflin;, 1970), by Helen MacMurchy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient Rome in the English novel; a study in English historical fiction ... (Philadelphia, 1923), by Randolph Faries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American novel in Germany, 1871-1913 (Americana Germanica press, 1918), by Clement Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions; essays in contemporary criticism (Second series) (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1924), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern novel; some aspects of contemporary fiction (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926), by Elizabeth A. Drew (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American novel (The Macmillan company, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love and death in the American novel. (Criterion Books, 1960), by Leslie A. Fielder (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rediscovery of the frontier (University of Chicago Press, 1931), by Percy Holmes Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary American novelists, 1900-1920 (The Macmillan company, 1922), by Carl Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virginia life in fiction (Dallas, 1922), by Jay B. Hubbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architecture in English fiction. (Yale University Press, 1934), by Warren Hunting Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The novel in English (R. R. Smith, inc., 1931), by Grant C. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Definitions; essays in contemporary criticism (Jonathan Cape, ltd, 1925), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American novel (The Macmillan company, 1927), by Carl Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust)
• The boys in the back room : notes on California novelists. (Colt Press, 1941), by Edmund Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The novel of democracy in America; a contribution to the study of the progress of democratic ideas in the American novel (J. H. Furst company, 1923), by Alice Jouveau Du Breuil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Provincial types in American fiction. (Kennikat Press, 1968), by Horace Spencer Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early American novel (New York, 1907), by Lillie Loshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early American novel (Columbia University Press, 1907), by Lillie Loshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The college novel in America. With a pref. by Harry T. Moore. (Southern Illinois University Press, 1962), by John Ormsby Lyons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shapers of American fiction, 1798-1947. (Cooper Square Publishers, 1961), by George D. Snell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literature and insurgency; ten studies in racial evolution: Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, David Graham Phillips, Stewart Edward White, Winston Churchill, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Atherton, and Robert W. Chambers (M. Kennerley, 1914), by John Curtis Underwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the novel from 1700 to the present time (The Macmillan company, 1933), by Pelham Edgar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social thought in American fiction (1910-1917) (Southern California Sociological Society, University of Southern California, 1918), by Hazel Clare Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Provincial types in American fiction (The Chautauqua press, 1907), by Horace Spencer Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• Businessmen in fiction; the capitalist and executive in American novels. (Amos Tuck School of Business Administration [Dartmouth College, 1955), by Robert A. Kavesh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American novel (The Macmillan company, 1935), by Carl Van Doren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Pamphlets in philology and the humanities. Vol. 17] (s.n., 1897), by Harold Prell Breitenbach, Richard E. Helbig, Thomas P. Johnson, Clarence Linton Meader, James Rowland Angell, John Hays Gardiner, Mary Elizabeth Laing, Warren Washburn Florer, Charles Horton Cooley, Francis Barton Gummere, Edward Everett Hale, Raymond Macdonald Alden, Elmer Edgar Stoll, Ferdinand Brunetière, James Lane Allen, Irving Babbitt, William J. Shearer, Rollo Ogden, A. D. Lindsay, Ernest Sutherland Bates, Arlo Bates, Maurice Maeterlinck, William Warner Bishop, R. M. Wenley, Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay, John Dewey, Walter Avenel, William Eleroy Curtis, Fred Newton Scott, Otto Jespersen, W. P. Ratigan, C. B. Moulinier, John C. Stevens, William Shakespeare, Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson, Raymond Durbin Miller, Palmer Cobb, James Finch Royster, Oliver Towles, Michigan Schoolmasters' Club. German Section, Boston Public Library, New England Association of Teachers of English, and Rochester Equestres Party (East High School (page images at HathiTrust)
• Provincial types in American fiction (The Chautauqua Press, 1903), by Horace Spencer Fiske (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American novel in Germany, 1871-1913 (International printing co., 1918), by Clement Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Superlatives (A. A. Knopf, 1925), by Grant Cochran Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le roman américan d'aujourd'hui, critique d'une civilization (Boivin & Cie, éditeurs, 1926), by Régis Michaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The novel of democracy in America; a contribution to the study of the progress of democratic ideas in the American novel (J.H. Furst Company, 1923), by Alice Jouveau Du Breuil (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American historical novel : on American themes, before 1860 (University of Illinois, 1923), by Ernest Erwin Leisy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American short story; a study of the influence of locality in its development. (AMS Press, 1970), by Elias Lieberman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les nouveaux romanciers américains (Calmann-Levy, 1885), by Th. Bentzon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social types in southern prose fiction ... (Edwards brothers, 1921), by Marion Clifford Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in contemporary criticism (J. Cape, 1922), by Henry Seidel Canby (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The early American novel, 1789-1830. (F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1958), by Lillie Deming Loshe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American novel in Germany, 1871-1913. (International printing co., 1918), by Clement Vollmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to British and American novels : being a comprehensive manual of all forms of popular fiction in Great Britain, Australasia, and America from its commencement down to 1893 (Digby, Long, 1894), by Percy Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some American story tellers (G. Richards, 1912), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The advance of the English novel (Dodd, Mead, 1927), by William Lyon Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)

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