The House of Percy : Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family
The novels of Walker Percy--The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few--have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Twocenturies of wealth, literary accomplishment, political leadership, depression, and sometimes suicide established a fascinating legacy that lies behind Walker Percy's acclaimed prose and profound insight into the human condition. In The House of Percy, Bertram Wyatt-Brown masterfully interprets the life of this g
Biographies
1 online resource (499 pages)
9780198022305, 0198022301
476013594
Contents; PROLOGUE: The Brooding Knight; PART ONE: The Early Male Percys; PART TWO: The Female Line; PART THREE: The Greenville Percys; PART FOUR: Fiction, Legend, and Lineage; APPENDICES: Genealogical Charts; A Selected List of Manuscript Collections; Notes; Index