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William Alexander Percy : the curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker / Benjamin E. Wise.

Author/creator Wise, Benjamin E.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2012.
Descriptionx, 355 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Introduction: stories of belonging -- The stage of Southern history -- Childhood, remembered queerly -- Sewanee -- Southerner in Europe -- Harvard -- The senator's son -- On love, poetry, and war -- The soldier -- The native and nostalgic poet -- The Klan -- On god, sin, and the Mediterranean -- The flood and after -- Uncle Will -- Samoa, sharecropping, and race -- The autobiographer -- Epilogue: on sex, history, and trespassing.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011036531
ISBN9780807835357 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807835358 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3531.E65 Z98 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold