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Southern Literature

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From: American Eras
Date: 19970101
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Southern Literature

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Romances. Like many Northern novelists, Southern writers were strongly influenced by the popular historical romances of Sir Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper, whose ideas they adapted to specific Southern themes and locations. Marylander John P. Kennedy ’ s Swallow Barn (1832), the first significant plantation novel, was a novel of manners that contained favorable descriptions of local differences (including slavery) offered by a fictional Northern visitor. William A. Caruthers ’ s novels The Cavaliers of Virginia (1834 – 1835) and

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