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Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The House of Percy

Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family

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The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Two centuries of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and sometimes suicide established a fascinating legacy that lies behind Walker Percy's acclaimed prose and profound insight into the human condition.In The House of Percy, Bertram Wyatt-Brown masterfully interprets the life of this gifted family, drawing out the twin themes of an inhe… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-802230-5
  • EAN: 9780198022305
  • Produktnummer: 13942194
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 38'365 KB
  • Abbildungen: 47 halftones

Über den Autor


Bertram Wyatt-Brown is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His books include Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South and Yankee Saints and Southern Sinners.

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