Negotiating community in Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes.

From: Style | Date: March 22, 1996| Author: Romine, Scott | Copyright information

Following the lead of Kenneth Lynn and his theory of the cordon sanitaire, most critics have interpreted the relationship between the gentleman narrator and the lower class whites in Longstreet's Georgia Scenes as an antagonistic one. Rather than simply asserting and justifying class privilege, however, Longstreet undertakes a complex negotiation of class roles. Lyman Hall, the primary narrator of Georgia Scenes, initially demonstrates a socionarrative style - that is, a social style reflecte...

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