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Flannery O'Connor's Fractured Families

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Tony Magistrale
Tony Magistrale
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Tony Magistrate is Professor of English at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 05405-0114, U.S.A.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , April 1987 , pp. 111 - 114
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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References

1 See Brittain, Joan T., “The Fictional Family of Flannery O'Connor,” Renascence, 19 (Fall 1966), pp. 44–52Google Scholar and Shear, Walter, “Flannery O'Connor: Character and Characterization,’ Renascence, 20 (Spring 1968), pp. 140–146.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Louise, Westling, “Flannery O'Connor's Mothers and Daughters,” Twentieth-Century Literature, 24 (Winter 1978), pp. 510–522.Google Scholar

3 Flannery, O'Connor, “The Lame Shall Enter first,” The Complete Short Stories of Flannerj O'Connor (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1972), p. 447Google Scholar. All textual references to any of O'Connor's short stories refer to this collection and will hereafter be cited parenthetically.

4 See especially p. 469, as Sheppard chooses to ignore Norton's gesture of confidence in order to avoid “breaking Johnson's trust.”