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The Underground Stream - by Nancylee Novell Jonza (Paperback)

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  • This biography offers the most complete and accurate portrait to date of the writer Caroline Gordon (1895-1981).
  • About the Author: NANCYLEE NOVELL JONZA lives in Woodbury, Minnesota.
  • 502 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Literary Figures

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This biography offers the most complete and accurate portrait to date of the writer Caroline Gordon (1895-1981). Viewing Gordon's life in the context of female literary tradition, Jonza reclaims Gordon's integrity, individuality, and artistic vision from beneath a self-effacing, sometimes detractive, public image.



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This biography offers the most complete and accurate portrait to date of the writer Caroline Gordon (1895-1981). Viewing Gordon's life in the context of female literary tradition, Nancylee Novell Jonza reclaims Gordon's integrity, individuality, and artistic vision from beneath a self-effacing, sometimes detractive, public image carefully fostered by the artist herself.

Gordon's nine novels and three short-story collections are a major contribution in their own right to the southern literary renaissance. Despite an enduring readership, however, she still remains in the shadow of her husband, Allen Tate, the Fugitive Poet and Agrarian critic, partially due to her contrived persona of a traditional southern lady turned artist under the tutelage of a gifted, benevolent male writer. Drawing on manuscript drafts, unpublished works, letters, and a significant body of her journalistic writing, Jonza investigates fully the causes and effects of Gordon's self-mythologizing and covers substantially more ground than the thirty years during which she was closest to Tate.

A little-known Caroline Gordon emerges from The Underground Stream. Her readers are sure to reach a deeper understanding of such aspects of Gordon's life and her art as her family's strong matriarchal tradition, her difficulties with pregnancy and motherhood, her conversion to Catholicism, her alcoholism, and her role within a sometimes destructive relationship with Allen Tate.



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Jonza belongs to a new generation of historians who have turned their attention to literary biography. The combination of her research skills and her scholarly conscience has helped her to reconstruct in studied detail the genesis of Caroline Gordon's novels. . . . This newest biography of Gordon tells the story of a southern woman who won her artistic independence against great odds.

--Thomas A. Underwood "Boston University"

An insightful, engaging biography of a dark-sided, talented writer whose witty comments endeared her to--or estranged her from--most of the literary bigwigs of her day.

--Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Jonza presents with eager directness her rationale for a reappraisal of this Southern novelist and central figure.

--New York Times

Jonza's careful readings of Gordon substantiate the argument for a feminist undercurrent.

--Miami Herald

This biography offers a wonderfully human portrait of a restless, scholarly, sensitive spirit.

--Memphis Commercial Appeal



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NANCYLEE NOVELL JONZA lives in Woodbury, Minnesota.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x 1.12 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.61 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 502
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Nancylee Novell Jonza
Language: English
Street Date: June 1, 2010
TCIN: 1008291118
UPC: 9780820336268
Item Number (DPCI): 247-23-9651
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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