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North and South is a multi-dimensional look at a prevailing theme in current discourse on the concept of borders. This collection of essays invites us to cross historical, regional, and disciplinary boundaries. The contributors consider a range of primary texts, use a number of critical approaches, and make some surprising connections. The borders created by the concepts of ""north"" and ""south"" provoke us to ask if the terms continue to represent real divisions, or if usage and habit have drained them of any real meaning. And how have literary texts sought to represent and elucidate the divisions and to complicate and undermine such rigid categories? This collection of essays considers such questions and offers some tentative and original answers. The essays in North and South treat a wide variety of topics, generically and geographically, chronologically and creatively. They interrogate the elusive topic of boundaries symbolic and literal; boundaries as means of communication rather than division; boundaries that create borderlands; boundaries that invite transgression; boundaries that resist erasure. Across and within these boundaries, the theme of identity emerges: international, national, regional, gendered, racial, ethnic.

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Christine DeVine is the Mary E. Dichmann Endowed Professor of English at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, and author of Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells as well as essays on Henry James, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy and George Eliot. She is also editor of Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World.Mary Ann Wilson is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, where she teaches American literature, women's studies, and humanities. She has published widely on American women writers, most recently on New Orleans writer Grace King. Her current book project is on New Orleans women's book clubs, 1880–1925.

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