The house of Percy : honor, melancholy, and imagination in a Southern family
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- ISBN: 0195056264 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780195056266 (alk. paper)
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xv, 454 p., [26] p. of plates : ill ; 25 cm. - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-442) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: The Brooding Knight -- Pt. 1. The Early Male Percys. 1. The Demons of Charles Percy. 2. A Son of Two Fathers. 3. Brevity of Life -- Pt. 2. The Female Line. 4. The Philadelphia Years. 5. Two Southern Brontes. 6. Sarah Dorsey. 7. Collision of Minds. 8. Enshrining the Lost Cause -- Pt. 3. The Greenville Percys. 9. A Knight-errant's Defeat. 10. Will Percy: The Years of Testing. 11. At War. 12. The Terrors of Klan and Flood. 13. An Acquaintance with Grief. 14. Stoic Honor. 15. New Duties and Old Memories -- Pt. 4. Fiction, Legend, and Lineage. 16. Walker and the Legacy of "Uncle Will" 17. Walker Percy: The Making of a Southern Novelist. 18. Thanatos and Lineage -- Appendices: Genealogical Charts -- A Selected List of Manuscript Collections. |
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