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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 5: dialect writers (search)
ause it represents both a type and an individual, but because the type is now nearly extinct. Before the war every large plantation or group of plantations had its Uncle Remus; today he lingers here and there in a few villages of the South, but is regarded more as a curiosity, a specimen, a relic of the past than as a part of the present. As portrayed by Harris, Uncle Remus sums up the past and dimly hints the future. The character was modelled in part after that of an old negro, Uncle George Terrell, whom Harris had learned to know intimately on the Turner plantation. The Uncle Remus of the stories is eighty years old, but still moves and speaks with the vigour of youth. He had always exercised authority over his fellow-servants. He had been the captain of the corn-pile, the stoutest at the logrolling, the swiftest with the hoe, the neatest with the plough, and the plantation hands still looked upon him as their leader. Nights with Uncle Remus, p. 400. His life spanned thre
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
es, 401 Tannenbaum, 0 Tannenbaum, 295 Tar-Baby Story and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus, The, 350 Tardy George, 280 Taylor, Bayard, 49, 167, 190, 192, 276, 278, 280, 311, 337, 338, 344, 402 Taylor, John, 84-85 Temperance, 45 Tennent, Gilbert, 198 Tennessee's partner, 380, 385 Tennyson, 3, 5, 39, 52, 224, 248, 254, 271 Tenting on the old camp ground, 285 Tent on the Beach, the, 46, 49 Ten years on a Georgia plantation, 3, 4 Term of service ended, 286 Terrell, Uncle, George, 354 Thackeray, 153, 172, 232, 371, 384, 391 Thayer and Eldridge, 268 Theology explained and defended, 200 Thierry, 128 Thirty years view, 90 Thomas, Isaiah, 180 Thomas, Theodore, 335 Thompson, J. R., 169, 290, 298, 301, 305, 306, 308, 311 Thompson, Maurice, 303 Thompson, Mortimer, 156 Thompson, W. H., 284 Thompson, William Tappan, 153, 347-348 Thoreau, Helen, 2 Thoreau, Henry David, 1-15, 20, 165, 245, 267 Thoreau, John, 9 Thorpe, Thomas Bangs