Literature of Tennessee - Wikipedia Literature of Tennessee From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Tennessee literature) Jump to navigation Jump to search This article is part of a series on the Culture of the United States of America Society History Language People Race and ethnicity Religion Arts and literature Architecture Art Dance Fashion Literature Comics Poetry Music Sculpture Theater Other Cuisine Festivals Folklore Media Newspapers Radio Cinema TV Internet Pornography Mythology Sport Symbols Flag Great Seal Monuments Motto Anthem Bird World Heritage Sites United States portal v t e The literature of Tennessee in the United States includes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Representative authors include James Agee, Shelby Foote, Caroline Gordon, Cormac McCarthy, Mary Noailles Murfree, John Crowe Ransom, T. S. Stribling, Allen Tate and Peter Taylor.[1] Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 References 4 Bibliography 4.1 Published in 20th century 4.2 Published in 21st century 5 External links History[edit] This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (March 2017) A printing press began operating in Rogersville in 1791.[2] In 1854 the Methodist Publishing House relocated to Nashville from Philadelphia.[3][4] Mary Noalles Murfree (1850–1922) published under the pseudonym "Charles Egbert Craddock". Her In the Tennessee Mountains (1884) became a bestseller, featuring "stories of the Tennessee hill country".[5] In the 1920s the Fugitives, a group of poets, was based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Also at Vanderbilt in the 1920s-1930s were the Southern Agrarians, unofficially led by John Crowe Ransom.[6] See also[edit] Category:Writers from Tennessee List of newspapers in Tennessee Poetry Society of Tennessee Category:Tennessee in fiction Category:Libraries in Tennessee Southern United States literature American literary regionalism References[edit] ^ Ensor 2009. ^ Wroth, Lawrence C. (1938). "Diffusion of Printing". The Colonial Printer (2nd revised ed.). Southworth-Anthoensen Press. p. 15. OCLC 2490245. ^ Hillinger, Charles (May 28, 1986). "Nashville: Publishing Bibles Is Big Business". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 13, 2017. ^ Blodgett, Jan (1997). Protestant Evangelical Literary Culture and Contemporary Society. Contributions to the Study of Religion. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-30395-9. OCLC 36147250. ^ Campbell, Donna M. (2006). "Regionalism and Local Color Fiction". In Quirk, Tom; Scharnhorst, Gary (eds.). American History Through Literature, 1870-1920. 3. Detroit, Michigan: Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-31493-8. OCLC 62778245. ^ Young 1981. Bibliography[edit] Published in 20th century[edit] Knight, Lucian Lamar, ed. (1913). "Fifty Reading Courses: Course XLVII. Tennessee". Library of Southern Literature. 16. Atlanta, Georgia: Martin and Hoyt. pp. 211–214. Dershem, Elsie (1921). "Tennessee". An Outline of American State Literature. Lawrence, Kansas: World Company. p. 159. OCLC 3404797. Federal Writers' Project (1939). "Writers of Tennessee". Tennessee: A Guide to the State. American Guide Series. New York: Viking Press. pp. 145–154. OCLC 2479491. Harkness, David James (1950). "Tennessee in Recent Books, Music, and Drama". University of Tennessee Newsletter. Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee. 29 (1). OCLC 7802323. Ballentine, Nelle (1960). A Bibliographical Checklist of Knoxville and Memphis Imprints, 1867-1876. Modern Languages Series. Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press. OCLC 23633407. McClary, Ben Harris (1962). Our Literary Heritage: A Guide for Tennessee in Literature. Athens, Tennessee: Tennessee Wesleyan College. OCLC 16627482. Tennessee Council of Teachers of English (1969). Poets in Tennessee: Fifteen Biographical Notes. Martin, Tennessee: University of Tennessee at Martin. OCLC 29892526. Hearne, Mary Glenn (1974). Authors of Nashville and Davidson County. Nashville Authors Series. Nashville, Tennessee: Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County. OCLC 8359523. Warren, John William; McClaren, Adrian W. (1977). Tennessee Belles-Lettres: A Guide to Tennessee Literature. Morristown, Tennessee: Morrison Printing. OCLC 749619227. Young, Thomas Daniel (1981). Tennessee Writers. Tennessee Three Star Books (1st ed.). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-87049-320-1. OCLC 7276903. Burton, Linda, ed. (1983). Stories from Tennessee (1st ed.). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-376-0. OCLC 8763191. Willbanks, Ray, ed. (1984). Literature of Tennessee. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. ISBN 0-86554-139-6. OCLC 10998838. Paschall, Douglas; Swanson, Alice, eds. (1986). Homewords: A Book of Tennessee Writers (1st ed.). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-494-5. OCLC 12805392. Tickle, Phyllis; Swanson, Alice, eds. (1996). Homeworks: A Book of Tennessee Writers (1st ed.). Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 0-87049-942-4. OCLC 612092258. Akin, Nat, ed. (1996). A Tennessee Landscape, People, and Places: 1996 Tennessee Writers Alliance Anthology (1st ed.). Franklin, Tennessee: Cool Springs Press. ISBN 1-888608-32-3. OCLC 36921475. Published in 21st century[edit] Flora, Joseph M.; MacKethan, Lucinda Hardwick; Taylor, Todd, eds. (2002). "Literature of Tennessee". The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2692-6. OCLC 47054674. Ensor, Allison (2009). "Literature". Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. University of Tennessee Press. Margaret Renkl (July 9, 2018), "What Is a Southern Writer, Anyway?", New York Times External links[edit] Bibliography of Tennessee Bibliographies by the Tennessee Secretary of State (includes "Literature" section) Tennessee Authors of Adult Fiction, Poetry & Drama: 1970s - Present by the Tennessee Secretary of State Literary Landmarks by State: Tennessee by the American Library Association Research Guides: Tennessee Authors (Special Collections) by the University of Tennessee v t e  State of Tennessee Nashville (capital) Topics History Geography Tennesseans African Americans Mass media Newspapers Radio TV Constitution Elections Governors Lieutenant Governors General Assembly Supreme Court Tennessee National Guard Law enforcement Symbols Tourist attractions Seal of Tennessee Grand Divisions East Tennessee Middle Tennessee West Tennessee Regions Blue Ridge Mountains Cumberland Mountains Cumberland Plateau Great Appalachian Valley Highland Rim Mississippi Plain Nashville Basin Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians Tennessee Valley Tri-Cities Largest cities Nashville Memphis Knoxville Chattanooga Clarksville Murfreesboro Franklin Jackson Johnson City Bartlett Counties Anderson Bedford Benton Bledsoe Blount Bradley Campbell Cannon Carroll Carter Cheatham Chester Claiborne Clay Cocke Coffee Crockett Cumberland Davidson Decatur DeKalb Dickson Dyer Fayette Fentress Franklin Gibson Giles Grainger Greene Grundy Hamblen Hamilton Hancock Hardeman Hardin Hawkins Haywood Henderson Henry Hickman Houston Humphreys Jackson Jefferson Johnson Knox Lake Lauderdale Lawrence Lewis Lincoln Loudon Macon Madison Marion Marshall Maury McMinn McNairy Meigs Monroe Montgomery Moore Morgan Obion Overton Perry Pickett Polk Putnam Rhea Roane Robertson Rutherford Scott Sequatchie Sevier Shelby Smith Stewart Sullivan Sumner Tipton Trousdale Unicoi Union Van Buren Warren Washington Wayne Weakley White Williamson Wilson v t e Culture of the United States by locale Culture by city or metropolitan area Baltimore Boston Chicago Cincinnati Columbus Dallas Detroit Houston Jacksonville Los Angeles Miami New Orleans New York City Brooklyn Omaha Philadelphia Pittsburgh San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle St. Louis Virginia Beach Culture by state Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Culture by region Mid-Atlantic Midwest New England South Federal district Washington, D.C. v t e North American literature Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Barbados Belize Canada Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla Aruba Bermuda Bonaire British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Curaçao Greenland Guadeloupe Martinique Montserrat Puerto Rico Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Turks and Caicos Islands United States Virgin Islands This article about American literature is a stub. 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