Books by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

A partial listing….

  1. Southern Renascence: The Literature of the Modern South. [Co-edited with Robert D. Jacobs]. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1953.
  2. Thomas Wolfe: The Weather of His Youth. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1955.
  3. The Golden Weather. New York: Atheneum, 1961.
  4. The Idea of an American Novel. [Co-editor with John Rees Moore]. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co., 1961.
  5. The Curious Death of the Novel: Essays in American Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967.
  6. Babe Ruth’s Ghost: And Other Historical and Literary Speculations. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996.
  7. A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1969.
  8. George W. Cable: The Life and Times of a Southern Heretic. New York: Pegasus, 1969.
  9. The Writer in the South: Studies in a Literary Community. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1972.
  10. The Comic Imagination in American Literature. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1973.
  11. Black Poetry in America: Two Essays in Historical Interpretation. [Co-authored with Blyden Jackson]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974.
  12. William Elliott Shoots a Bear: Essays on the Southern Literary Imagination. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975.
  13. The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets and the South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.
  14. The Literary South. [Editor]. New York: Wiley, 1979.
  15. Surfaces of a Diamond. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
  16. A Gallery of Southerners. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
  17. The History of Southern Literature. [Editor]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985.
  18. The Edge of the Swamp: A Study in the Literature and Society of the Old South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
  19. The Mockingbird in the Gum Tree: A Literary Gallimaufry. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1991.
  20. The Heat of the Sun. Atlanta, Ga.: Longstreet Press, 1995.
  21. A Writer’s Companion. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995.

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