Eudora Welty, Delta Wedding

Cecilia Donohue (Independent Scholar - North America)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1946

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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Prolific American Southern writer Eudora Welty, who passed away in July of 2001 at the age of 92, will perhaps be best remembered for her autobiographical text

One Writer's Beginnings

(1983), as well as for her short stories and the quirky characters that populate them. However, Welty also made several notable forays into novel-writing in the course of her seven–decade career. Her first published work of long fiction,

Delta Wedding

(1946), received mixed notices from critics. A clip from a review from

The Christian Science Monitor

reprinted on the back cover of the current U.S. paperback edition hails the work for presenting “the essence of the Deep South … with infinite finesse”. Conversely, Marvin Felheim, in an article from the 1964 text

Contemporary American Novelists

, faults…

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Citation: Donohue, Cecilia. "Delta Wedding". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 December 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5673, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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