Mary Weaks-Baxter
Born: 1962
Pen Name: None Connection to Illinois: Professor Weaks-Baxter lives in Rosco, Illinois. Biography: Mary Weaks-Baxter is a Hazel Koch Professor of English at Rockford College and the president of Rockford College’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
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Reclaiming the American farmer : ISBN: 0807131296 OCLC: 61130739 Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge : ©2006. "In this stimulating study, [author] views the Southern Renaissance, 1900-1960, from a fresh perspective. Many writers in the South began consciously to create new myths for the region at the start of the twentieth century, and these myths, [author] argues, reframed southern history and culture. Instead of being rooted in the plantation culture that had provided inspiration for nineteenth-century southern writers, the new literature was inspired by "southern folk," the common people who farmed the earth and whose values derived from Jeffersonian agrarianism and democracy."--Book jacket. |