Reconsidering Flannery O'Connor

Enlightening and insightful new approaches to the study of this influential southern writer Melanie Dragger, The Literary House Review

Arant and Cofer are to be commended for bringing out these papers in such a handsome collection. . . . No doubt, these essays will generate many more fresh readings of O’Connor in the years to come. Flannery O'Connor Review

Alison Arant and Jordan Cofer’s collection of essays, Reconsidering Flannery O’Connor, stands as a major achievement, presenting a number of provocative new ways to interpret O’Connor and her work, mostly by younger scholars whose work here establishes them as important voices in O’Connor criticism. Impeccably edited, the volume is a treasure trove for both general readers and seasoned critics of O’Connor, the essays consistently invigorating and enlightening. Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., author of The Art and Vision of Flannery O’Connor and The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930–1950