Rebecca Godwi is professor of English and Elizabeth H. Jordan Chair of Southern Literature at Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. She is author of a book on Lee Smith as well as forty essays and book reviews in critical anthologies or scholarly journals, all focused on southern or Appalachian writers.
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Preface 1. Influences and Context: Robert Morgan in Literary Community 2. Roots of a Writing Life: His Appalachian Homes, South and North 3. Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century History: Fictionalizing Pioneers and Conflicts 4. The Family Novels: Two Generations of Paternal and Maternal Ancestors 5. More Short Fiction: Classism, War, Machine-Age Destruction 6. Poetry's Place: Memory, Nature, Science, Resurrection 7. Final Words: The Morgenland Elohist Notes Bibliography Index
Robert Morgan has established himself as a major American writer and one of the most important voices to have emerged from Appalachia in the past half century. Remarkably, no scholarly monograph has yet been published on his writing. Rebecca Godwin's excellent treatment is poised to satisfy a demand that is keenly and widely felt." -George Hovis, author of Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction