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Collections >> Library of Southern Literature >> Bibliography
This bibliography was prepared by Dr. Robert Bain, a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With additional funding from the University Library, this collection continues to grow. Dr. Joseph M. Flora, professor of English at UNC-Chapel Hill, guides the expansion of this collection beyond Dr. Bain's original bibliography. For the complete list of titles available in this collection, please browse the Alphabetical List.
Dr. Robert Bain's Original Bibliography
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- Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison, eds. Slave Songs of the United States. New York, A. Simpson, 1867.
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- Baldwin, Joseph Glover. The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. New York: D. Appleton, 1853.
- Bartram, William. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. Embellished with Copper-Plates. Philadelphia: Printed by James & Johnson, 1791.
- Beverley, Robert. The History and Present State of Virginia, In Four Parts. London: R[ichard] Parker, 1705. (A revised edition appeared in 1722.)
- Bonner, Sherwood. Dialect Tales New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883.
- Brown, William Wells. Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States. Boston: J. Redpath, 1864. (Revised from an earlier edition published in 1853 under a different title.)
- -----. Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave. London, Charles Gilpin, 1849.
- Byrd, William. The Histories of the Dividing Line. Petersburg Va. E. and J.C. Ruffin, (written between 1728 and 1732, but not published until 1841).
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- Cabell, James Branch. Jurgen. New York: McBride, 1919.
- Cable, George Washington. Old Creole Days. New York: Scribner, 1879. (The 1883 edition, and since, enlarged to include the addition of "Madame Delpine." )
- -----. The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life. New York: Scribner 1880.
- -----. John March, Southerner. New York: Scribner, 1894.
- Chesnut, Mary Boykin. A Diary from Dixie, as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an Aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army. Ed. Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary. New York: D. Appleton, 1905.
- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell. The Conjure Woman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.
- -----. The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899.
- -----. The House Behind the Cedars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900.
- -----. The Marrow of Tradition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901.
- -----. The Colonel's Dream. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905.
- Chopin, Kate. Bayou Folk. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1894.
- -----. A Night in Acadie. Chicago: Way & Williams, 1897.
- -----. The Awakening. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1899.
- Cook, Ebenezer. The Sotweed Factor, Or, a Voyage to Maryland. London: Printed-and sold by B. Bragg, 1708.
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- Davis, M. E. M. An Elephant's Track, and Other Stories. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897.
- Dixon, Thomas. The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903.
- -----. The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. New York, Doubleday, Page, 1905.
- Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845.
- Dromgoole, Will Allen. The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1895.
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- Elliott, Sarah Barnwell. The Durket Sperret. New York: H. Holt, 1898.
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- Fitzhugh, George. Sociology for the South: or, The Failure of Free Society. Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, 1854.
- -----. Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters. Richmond, Va.: A. Morris, 1857.
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- Glasgow, Ellen. The Voice of the People. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1900.
- -----. The Battle-Ground. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1902.
- -----. The Deliverance. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1904.
- -----. Virginia.Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1913.
- Grainger, James. The Sugar Cane, Book 4: The Genius of Africa. 1764.
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- Hamilton, Alexander. The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club. (abridged version, 1755).
- Harben, Will N. North Georgia Sketches. Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1900.
- Harris, George Washington. Sut Lovingood. Yarns Spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool." New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867.
- Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. New York: D. Appleton, 1881.
- -----. Free Joe and Other Georgia Sketches. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887.
- Hayne, Paul Hamilton. Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne. Complete Edition. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882.
- Hentz, Caroline Lee. The Planter's Northern Bride. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1854.
- Holiday, Carl. Three Centuries of Southern Poetry, 1607-1907. Nashville, Tenn.: Publishing house of the M.E. Church South, 1908.
- Hooper, Johnson Jones. Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845.
- Horton, George Moses. The Hope of Liberty. Raleigh, NC: J. Gales and Son, 1829.
- -----. The Poetical Works of George Moses Horton, the Colored Bard of North Carolina. Hillsborough, NC: Dennis Heaartt, 1845.
- -----. Naked Genius. Raleigh, NC: Wm. B. Smith, 1865.
- -----. "Life of George M. Horton. The Colored Bard of North Carolina," from The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, the Colored Bard of North Carolina, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, written by himself. Hillsborough, NC: Heartt, 1845.
- Hubner, Charles W., ed. Representative Southern Poets. New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Co., 1906.
- Hundley, Daniel Robinson. Social Relations in Our Southern States New York: H. B. Price, 1860.
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- Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Boston: The author, 1861, (Ed; Jean Fagin Yellin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1987.)
- Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. London, J. Stockdale, 1787, Philadelphia, Prichard and Hall, 1788.
- Johnson, James Weldon. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. New York: Sherman, French, 1912.
- -----. God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. New York: Viking Press, 1927.
- Johnston, Mary. To Have and to Hold. Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1900.
- Johnston, Richard Malcolm. Dukesborough Tales. New York: Harper, 1883.
- Jones, John B. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1866.
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- Kennedy, John Pendleton. Horse-Shoe Robinson. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835.
- -----. Rob of the Bowl. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1838.
- -----. Swallow Barn. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832.
- Kent, Charles W., ed. Southern Poems. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1913.
- King, Grace. Monsieur Motte. New York: A. C. Armstrong, 1888.
- -----. Balcony Stories. New York: Century, 1893.
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- Lanier, Sidney. Tiger-Lillies. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1876.
- -----. Poems of Sidney Lanier. Edited by his Wife. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884.
- Lawson, John. A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c. London: [s.n.] Printed in the year 1709.
- Lewis, Henry Clay [Madison Tensas]. Odd Leaves from the Life of a Louisiana "Swamp Doctor." Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1850.
- Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin. Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, &c., in the First Half Century of the Republic. By a Native Georgian. Augusta: Printed at the S. R. Sentinel Office, 1835. Subsequent editions include New York: Harper and Brothers, 1840, 1842, 1846, 1850, 1854, 1857, 1858, 1860, 1897.
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- Mencken, H. L. Prejudices. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.
- Mims, Edwin and Bruce R. Payne. Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools. New York: Charles Scribner's sons, 1910.
- Munford, Robert. A Collection of the Plays and Poems by the Late Col. Robert Munford, of Mecklenburg County, in the State of Virginia. Petersburgh: William Prentis, 1798.
- Murfree, Mary Noailles. In the Tennessee Mountains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884.
- -----. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1885.
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- Oglethorpe, James. A New and Accurate Accounte of the Provinces of South Carolina and Georgia, London: s.n., 1732.
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- Page, Thomas Nelson. In Ole Virginia: or Marse Chan and Other Stories. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1887.
- Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840.
- -----. The Raven and Other Poems. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845.
- -----. Tales by Edgar A. Poe. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845.
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- Ransom, John Crowe. Poems About God. New York: Henry Holt, 1919.
- Revel, James. The Poor Unhappy Transported Felon's Sorrowful Account of His Fourteen Years of Transportation at Virginia in America. York: C. Croshaw, ca. 1800 (1680?).
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- Sharp, Cecil, ed. English Folksongs from Southern Appalachia. New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1917.
- Simms, William Gilmore. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. New York: Harper, 1835.
- -----. The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina. New York: Harper, 1835.
- -----. The Wigwam and the Cabin. First and Second Series. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845.
- -----. The Sword and The Distaff; or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty," A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution. Charleston, SC: Walker, Richards, 1852. Retitled Woodcraft in the Redfield edition.
- Smith, Captain John. The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles. London: Printed by J[ohn] D[awson] and J[ohn] H[aviland] for Michael Sparkes, 1624.
- Smith, Francis Hopkinson. Colonel Carter of Cartersville. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin [c1919] 1891.
- Stuart, Ruth McEnery. In Simpkinsville: Character Tales New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897.
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- Thorpe, Thomas Bangs. The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports. New York: D. Appleton, 1854. A revision and expansion of The Mysteries of the Backwoods; or Sketches of the Southwest: Including Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846. Includes "The Big Bear of Arkansas."
- Timrod, Henry. The Poems of Henry Timrod. Ed. Paul Hamilton Hayne. New York: E. J. Hale, 1873.
- Trent, W. P., ed. Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and Verse.New York: Macmillan, 1905.
- Twain, Mark. "Old Times on the Mississippi" from Atlantic Monthly 1875, "The Story of a Campaign That Failed" from Tales (?), and "A True Story".
- -----. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American, 1876.
- -----. Life on the Mississippi. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883.
- -----. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885.
- -----. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster, 1889.
- -----. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and The Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins. Hartford: American, 1894.
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- Washington, Booker T. Up From Slavery: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1901.
- Wirt, William. Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry. Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817.
- Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans. St. Elmo. New York: G. W. Carleton, 1866.