A talent for living: Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston literary tradition
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| spelling | Bellows, Barbara L. Verfasser aut A talent for living Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston literary tradition Barbara L. Bellows Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press [2006] © 2006 1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) illustrations, portraits txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Southern literary studies Description based on print version record The Last Aristocrat -- The Education of a Young Poet -- "My Heart Is Still My Own" -- Inventing a Southern Literature -- A Grave for Love -- Sea-Drinking Cities -- Thirty-Six Chalmers Street -- Speaking for the South -- Farewell to First Love -- Willkie and War -- American Fantasy -- Great Mischief -- "Death, My Son and Foe." "Josephine Pinckney (1895-1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling and trenchant social commentary found expression in poetry, five novels - Three O'Clock Dinner was the most successful - stories, essays, and reviews. Pinckney belonged to a distinguished South Carolina family and often used Charleston as her setting, writing in the tradition of Ellen Glasgow by blending social realism with irony, tragedy, and humor in chronicling the foibles of South's declining upper class. Barbara L. Bellows has produced the first biography of this very private woman and emotionally complex writer, whose life story is also the history of a place and time - Charleston in the first half of the twentieth century." "In A Talent for Living, Pinckney's life unfolds like a novel as she struggles to escape aristocratic codes and the ensnaring bonds of southern ladyhood and to embrace modern freedoms. In 1920, with DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen, she founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which helped spark the southern literary renaissance. Her home became a center of intellectual activity with visitors such as the poet Amy Lowell, the charismatic presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, and founding editor of the Saturday Review of Literature Henry Seidel Canby Sophisticated and cosmopolitan, she absorbed popular contemporary influences, particularly that of Freudian psychology, even as she retained an almost Gothic imagination shaped in her youth by the haunting, tragic beauty of the Low Country and its mystical Gullah culture. A skilled stylist, Pinckney excelled in creating memorable characters, but she never scripted an individual as engaging or intriguing as herself. Bellows offers an exhaustively researched portrait of this onetime cultural icon and her well-concealed personal life."--BOOK JACKET. Pinckney, Josephine swd Pinckney, Josephine / 1895-1957 fast Pinckney, Josephine / 1895-1957 Pinckney, Josephine Pinckney, Josephine 1895-1957 Pinckney, Josephine 1895-1957 (DE-588)132333538 gnd rswk-swf 1900 - 1999 fast Geschichte 1900-2000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General bisacsh Novelists, American fast Novelists, American 20th century Biography (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Pinckney, Josephine 1895-1957 (DE-588)132333538 p 1\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bellows, Barbara L . Talent for living http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=643914 Aggregator Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title_sub | Josephine Pinckney and the Charleston literary tradition |
| topic | Pinckney, Josephine swd Pinckney, Josephine / 1895-1957 fast Pinckney, Josephine / 1895-1957 Pinckney, Josephine Pinckney, Josephine 1895-1957 Pinckney, Josephine 1895-1957 (DE-588)132333538 gnd BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General bisacsh Novelists, American fast Novelists, American 20th century Biography |
| topic_facet | Pinckney, Josephine Pinckney, Josephine / 1895-1957 Pinckney, Josephine 1895-1957 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General Novelists, American Novelists, American 20th century Biography Biografie |
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