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Article: Graveyards and the literary imagination.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Studies in the Literary Imagination
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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The connections between literature and graveyards may be too obvious to see, especially for modern people who seldom spend much time in burial grounds. My epiphany came not long after I joined the faculty of Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, twelve years ago. A newspaper article had advertised a tour of Sunset Cemetery led by the local historical society in the nearby county seat of Shelby, and I bit. I had been noticing that, instead of naming a hometown, my North Carolina students often cited their county of origin, and I realized that understanding my new home meant getting a feel for Cleveland County, which the article claimed had 279 ...