Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985 by Jay Watson

New Southern Studies

Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985

Jay Watson

472 pages paperback

2 editions

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Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the ...

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