What’s Up Down South with Jedidiah Evans

Jedidiah Evans is a teacher and English Ph.D. student at The University of Sydney in Australia. His research examines North Carolina writer Thomas Wolfe’s preoccupation with sehnsucht – an addiction to longing – and seeks to explore how this ‘aesthetic of longing’ is linked to Wolfe’s obsession with 1930s Germany, his indebtedness to German Romanticism, and his fascist politics. In doing so, Evans disentangles Wolfe’s writing from solely regional debates surrounding “the South” and highlights the broader significance of his work as part of the transatlantic exchange of myths.

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