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Vol. 9, No. 1: Spring 2003

Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance by Harlan Greene (Review)

by Dale Volberg Reed

University of Georgia Press, 2001

Harlan Greene has set out to establish that John Bennett was a leading figure in the “Charleston Renaissance,” and he brings impressive credentials and a missionary zeal to the project. Greene, a Charlestonian, novelist, and archivist, became fascinated with Bennett while cataloging thirty linear feet of his papers at the South Carolina Historical Society. It’s easy to see why.

This article appears as an abstract above, the complete article can be accessed in Project Muse
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