Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935--1942

by Thomas W. Cutrer

Parnassus on the Mississippi is a history of the short-lived yet remarkable productive epoch when, in the words of C. Vann Woodward, "the center of the avant-garde of American literary criticism shifted temporarily to the banks of the Mississippi at Baton Rouge." Beginning with the establishment of the Southern Review at Louisiana State University in 1935, Baton Rouge became the home not only to a brand of criticism that would reshape...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807111430
• ISBN13: 9780807111437
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"