Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor

Alison Arant is associate professor and department chair in English at Wagner College on Staten Island in New York City. Her work has appeared in Flannery O'Connor Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Mississippi Quarterly, and Southern Literary Journal. Jordan Cofer is associate provost and professor of English at Georgia College. He is author of The Gospel According to Flannery O'Connor and coauthor of Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present. Marshall Bruce Gentry is author of Flannery O'Connor's Religion of the Grotesque and coeditor (with William L. Stull) of Conversations with Raymond Carver, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Arant and Cofer are to be commended for bringing out these papers in such a handsome collection. . . . No doubt, these essays will generate many more fresh readings of O'Connor in the years to come.-- "Flannery O'Connor Review" Enlightening and insightful new approaches to the study of this influential southern writer--Melanie Dragger "The Literary House Review" Alison Arant and Jordan Cofer's collection of essays, Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor, stands as a major achievement, presenting a number of provocative new ways to interpret O'Connor and her work, mostly by younger scholars whose work here establishes them as important voices in O'Connor criticism. Impeccably edited, the volume is a treasure trove for both general readers and seasoned critics of O'Connor, the essays consistently invigorating and enlightening.--Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., author of The Art and Vision of Flannery O'Connor and The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950