Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Collection of essays on southern literature and its writers - among the topics are Mitchell's Scarlett O'Hara, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Faulkner, Allen Tate, Thomas Wolfe and 'Of Time and the River', Shelby Foote's Civil War and Eudora Welty's Morgana. 233 pgs including index and notes.