Jay Watson is the Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies and Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner (Georgia) and editor of Conversations with Larry Brown and Faulkner and Whiteness.
Reading for the Body is a landmark study of Southern literature, a
magnificent work of scholarship written with crystal clarity.
Theoretically sophisticated and historically grounded, Watson's
book repeatedly leads us to new insights, new illuminations. A
remarkable achievement.--Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. "author of The
Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism,
1930-1950"
[Reading for the Body] is certainly one of the most important books
in Southern studies to appear in recent years. . . . Watson is a
beautiful writer who has the uncanny ability to make the most
difficult arguments surprisingly straightforward.--Robert H.
Brinkmeyer Jr. "Southern Register"
A visceral and invigorating study that takes us on a fantastic
voyage through southern bodies and narratives, providing superb and
often startling readings of texts we thought we knew. Critically
sophisticated, daring, and eloquent, Reading for the Body offers a
thrilling ride for aficionados of Southern and American
literature.--John Wharton Lowe "Robert Penn Warren Professor,
Louisiana State University"
This work provides a powerful argument for using the body and as a
methodological point of departure for southern studies. . . .
Highly recommended.--C. R. Bloss "Choice"
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