Louis Rubin, Thomas Wolfe, and the autobiographical impulse

(103) After completing his undergraduate degree-not at Chapel Hill but at the University of Richmond-Rubin had followed Wolfe's example in another way: I too had gone northward after graduation from college; had lived for a time across the river from New York City, working as a newspaper report...

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Published in:	The Thomas Wolfe review 2013, Vol.37 (1/2), p.74
Main Author:	Hobson, Fred
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 American literature Authors Autobiographical fiction autobiographical novel Autobiographies Autobiography Critical Writings English Literature Essays Influence Literary Influences Literature Look Homeward, Angel novel Novelists Novels prose Rubin, Louis D., Jr Rubin, Louis Decimus Rubin, Louis Decimus (1923-2013) Southern American novelists The Golden Weather the self Twentieth Century Wolfe, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas (1900-1938) Works World War II Writers Writing
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Summary:	(103) After completing his undergraduate degree-not at Chapel Hill but at the University of Richmond-Rubin had followed Wolfe's example in another way: I too had gone northward after graduation from college; had lived for a time across the river from New York City, working as a newspaper reporter; had walked along the streets of downtown Manhattan feeling very much Outside and envious of all those who were Inside. Any student of southern literature and culture knows where that road led-to the publication of Southern Renascence (a work that, because of its groundbreaking value, holds in southern literary scholarship nearly the place C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South holds in southern historical scholarship); to book-length studies of (among other subjects) Wolfe, George W. Cable, the Fugitive-Agrarians, and the literature of the Old South; to any number of collections of essays, touching nearly every major southern literary figure; to The History of Southern Literature and numerous other works; and to a position as the most prominent and influential figure in the long course of southern literary studies.
ISSN:	0276-5683 2169-1452