Eudora Welty and Walker Percy The Concept of Home in Their Lives and Literature
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Biographical note
The late Marion Montgomery was professor emeritus of English at the University of Georgia. In 2003, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute honored Montgomery with the Gerhart Niemeyer Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship in Liberal Arts. He lived in Crawford, Georgia.“recommended”—<i>Choice</i>; “engaging...readers...will be rewarded in reading [Montgomery]...provides a pathway out of modernity’s dark wood”—<i>Modern Age</i>; “explores the friendship between these authors, the different ways they represented home in their fiction, and how they understood the <i>home viator,</i> or ‘man on his way’”—<i>American Literature</i>; “a riveting account”—<i>St. Austin Review</i>; “I regard Marion Montgomery as one of the most acute and profound criticis of present-day American culture. He brings to his discussion of it penetrating insight and solid scholarship.”—Cleanth Brooks. “Provides a pathway out of modernity’s dark wood”—Patrick J. Walsh.