{"product_id":"thomas-wolfe-and-lost-children-in-southern-literature-9781621902454","title":"Thomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1937, Thomas Wolfe’s \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Boy\u003c\/em\u003e gives name to the theme of lost children that has permeated much of southern literature and provides a template for telling their stories. In \u003cem\u003eThomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, which grew out of many years of teaching \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Boy\u003c\/em\u003e and other works of southern literature, Paula Gallant Eckard uses Wolfe’s novel as a starting point to trace thematic connections among contemporary southern novels that are comparably evocative in their treatment of lostness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEckard explores six authors and their works: Fred Chappell’s \u003cem\u003eI Am One of You Forever\u003c\/em\u003e, Mark Powell’s Prodigals, Kaye Gibbons’s Ellen Foster, Sue Monk Kidd’s \u003cem\u003eThe Secret Life of Bees\u003c\/em\u003e, Bobbie Anne Mason’s In Country, Robert Olmstead’s \u003cem\u003eCoal Black Horse\u003c\/em\u003e, and Lee Smith’s \u003cem\u003eOn Agate Hill\u003c\/em\u003e. Though each novel is unique and a product of its own time period, all the novels explored here are cast against the backdrop of the South during eras of conflict and change. Like \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Boy\u003c\/em\u003e, these novels reflect a sense of history, a sense of loss associated with that history, and an innate love of story and narrative, as well as representations of work that historically have defined the lives of individuals and families throughout the South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In its artistic treatment of lostness, \u003cem\u003eThe Lost Boy\u003c\/em\u003e creates a significant literary legacy.  As Eckard demonstrates, that legacy continues in the form of these six contemporary authors who, in writing about the South, perpetuate Wolfe’s efforts as they also create or find the lost child in new ways.","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53188887019863,"sku":"9781621902454","price":44.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thomas-wolfe-and-lost-children-in-southern-literature-9781621902454","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}