Acknowledgements . . 9 Introduction . . 11 FAULKNER AND WOLFE European Culture in Southern Literature: Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner . . 33 The French Faulkner: Visibility, Absence, and Sanctuary's "Lake of Ink' . . 51 Modernist Novellas: European Reflections on Thomas Wolfe's Short Novels . . 69 EUROPEAN RECEPTION AND PERSPECTIVES Thomas Jefferson's Conflicting Views of Europe . . 91 Southern Literature in Northlight: 20th Century Southern Writers in Norwegian Translation: Reception, Reputation, Affinities . . 103 Antecedents and Trajectories of Two Twentieth-Century Writers from Georgia in Europe . . 115 Hemispheric Parallax: Zora Neale Hurston and the Triangulation of Race . . 137 How Bigger Mutated: Richard Wright, Boris Vian. and "The bloody paths through which we push logic into dread" . . 149 Richard Wright's Pagan Spain: Reading Spain through the American South . . 167 REIMAGINING THE SOUTH FROM A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE A Study in Scarlett O'Hara? The South in the Writings of Arthur Conan Doyle . . 181 'The Formidable Question": James's Transatlantic View of the South . . 207 A Southern Sheriff's Revenge: Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon . . 221 WELTY AND PERCY A Narrative Room of One's Own: Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom and European Fairy Tale . . 241 The Promiscuous Joy of Eudora Welty: Missing Bowen in Mississippi . . 257 Walker Percy and Eric Voegelin's Political Philosophy . . 277 City of Exiles: Unstable Narratives of New Orleans in George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days . . 293 Paris and New Orleans: The Transatlantic Cultural Legacy of Prostitution . . 309 France and the American South: Transatlantic Misreadings and Mythmaking . . 335 NINETEENTH-CENTURY RELATIONS Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain's Modernities . . 349 Mark Twain Abroad . . 363 "Whatever the law permits": Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative . . 377 FAULKNER "Les Amis Myriades et Anonymes a la France de Tout le Monde": Creolite and Empire, Difference and Indifference, in William Faulkner's A Fable . . 397 War and Modernism in Faulkner's A Fable . . 409 William Faulkner, New Orleans, and Europe . . 419 CULTURAL AND CAPITAL EXCHANGE Cavaliers and Capitalists: The Transatlantic South from Mercantilism to Mercedes . . 439 Old South/New Britain: Cotton, Capitalism, and Anglo-Southern Relations in the Civil War Era . . 455 European Influence on Pre-Civil War Southern Culture: The Case of South Carolina . . 473 The South in the Age of Nationalism . . 491 MOUNTAIN AND FOLK CULTURE The Green, Green Hills of Home: Mining in the Fiction of Appalachia and Wales . . 503 Happily Ever After in the Marketplace: The Ballads of the Southern Mountains and the Escape from Old Europe . . 519 Transatlantic Folk Exchanges in 1959 - the Revival Year . . 533 POSTWAR FICTIONS Slavery Old and New: Styron's Sophie's Choice . . 551 Black Girl in Paris: Shay Youngblood's Escape from "the last plantation" . . 563 Black South, Black Eurooe: William Demby . . 579 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS