Author: Katharine A. Burnett

Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard–drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South. …

Offering a compelling intervention in studies of antebellum writing, Katharine A. Burnett’s Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820-1860 examines …

As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on Sou …

The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. souther …

The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. souther …