LEADER 02918nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910790199403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4696-0190-7 010 $a0-8078-6995-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000159497 035 $a(EBL)875593 035 $a(OCoLC)780371017 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000613154 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11356276 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000613154 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10572178 035 $a(PQKB)11410967 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244024 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23557 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL875593 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539319 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL930227 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC875593 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000159497 100 $a20110921d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWilliam Alexander Percy$b[electronic resource] $ethe curious life of a Mississippi planter and sexual freethinker /$fBenjamin E. Wise 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (368 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1910-5 311 $a0-8078-3535-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: stories of belonging -- The stage of Southern history -- Childhood, remembered queerly -- Sewanee -- Southerner in Europe -- Harvard -- The senator's son -- On love, poetry, and war -- The soldier -- The native and nostalgic poet -- The Klan -- On god, sin, and the Mediterranean -- The flood and after -- Uncle Will -- Samoa, sharecropping, and race -- The autobiographer -- Epilogue: on sex, history, and trespassing. 330 $aIn this evocative biography, Benjamin E. Wise presents the singular life of William Alexander Percy (1885-1942), a queer plantation owner, poet, and memoirist from Mississippi. Though Percy is best known as a conservative apologist of the southern racial order, in this telling Wise creates a complex and surprising portrait of a cultural relativist, sexual liberationist, and white supremacist.We follow Percy as he travels from Mississippi around the globe and, always, back again to the Delta. Wise's exploration brings depth and new meaning to Percy's already compelling life story--his promi 606 $aPoets, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aLandowners$zMississippi$zGreenville$vBiography 606 $aPlantation life$zMississippi$zGreenville 615 0$aPoets, American 615 0$aLandowners 615 0$aPlantation life 676 $a811/.52 676 $aB 700 $aWise$b Benjamin E$01570031 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790199403321 996 $aWilliam Alexander Percy$93843388 997 $aUNINA