Description
These letters, which are being published for the first time with the unprecedented permission of the Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust, also offer readers important insights into O'Connor's intellectually formative years, when her ideas about writing, race, class, and interpersonal relationships were developing and changing. Her preoccupation with money, employment, and other practical matters reveals a side of O'Connor that we do not often see in her previously published letters. Most importantly, the letters show us her relationship with her mother in a much more intimate, positive light than we have seen before. The importance of this aspect of the letters cannot be overstated, given that so much literary analysis conflates her and Regina with the "sour, deformed daughters and self-righteous mothers" that critic Louise Westling sees so often in O'Connor's work.
About the Author
Monica Carol Miller is an assistant professor of English at Middle Georgia State University. She is the author of Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion.
Book Information
ISBN 9780820361857
Author Monica Carol Miller
Format Hardback
Page Count 277
Imprint University of Georgia Press
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Weight(grams) 259g