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title: 'The Literary Profession in the South'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Margaret Junkin Preston'
date: 1881-10-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Literature'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 19'
- 'Proverbs 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/preston-1881-the-literary-profession-in-the-south
---

# The Literary Profession in the South

Essay argues that literature flourishes in urban centers. The antebellum South lacked a professional literary class due to aristocratic settlement, plantation life, slavery, and rural isolation.

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