REGIONALISM AND BEYOND; ESSAYS OF RANDALL STEWART.

Presumed first edition (no direct statement provided). xxxii, 286 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some light foxing and soiling; nicks at edges; some color fading to spine panel. Beige cloth, light bumping at spine ends. Mild soiling to dark yellow colored top edge; slight soiling streaks at upper fore-edge margins of pages iv-v; interior pages are otherwise clean. Bookseller ticket for Plantation Book Shop Natchez, Miss. affixed at front pastedown's bottom right corner. Binding remains fairly crisp. Else a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. With tipped-in frontispiece b/w portrait of Randall Stewart, Acknowledgements, Foreword, Introduction, Bibliography ("Randall Stewart: A Bibliography 1929-1966" pages 267-280), and Index. Text divided among three parts titled as follows: PART I-HAWTHORNE "Editing The American Notebooks," "The Development of Character Types in Hawthorne's Fiction," "Recurrent Themes in Hawthorne's Fiction," "Hawthorne and The Faerie Queene," "Hawthorne and the Civil War," "Melville and Hawthorne," "Hawthorne and Faulkner," "The Golden Age of Hawthorne Criticism," PART II-ASPECTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE "Regional Characteristics in the Literature of New England," "Three Views of the Individual as Reflected in American Literature," "The Social School of American Criticism," "The Moral Aspect of Henry James's 'International Situation,'" "Moral Crisis as a Structural Principle in Fiction: A Few American Examples," "The Old Cost of the Human Redemption," "PART III. SOUTHERN LITERATURE IN OUTLINE AND PERSPECTIVE "Tidewater and Frontier," "The Relation Between Fugitives and Agrarians," "Donald Davidson," and "Outlook for Southern Writing: Diagnosis and Prognosis.".…