TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE -- PEDAGOGY -- FLORIDA CRIME WRITERS AND THE (CLASSROOM) ENVIRONMENT -- USING FLORIDA LITERATURE - EVEN IN A CLASS FOCUSED ON PUBLIC WRITING -- RITUAL AND REGION IN STUDENT WRITING -- OLD FLORIDA -- PORTRAIT OF A FLORIDA ARTIST -- FLORIDA PICARESQUE -- ZORA NEALE HURSTON -- "THE DREAM IS THE TRUTH" -- CIVIL RIGHTS, DISOBEDIENCE, AND PROTEST IN TALLAHASSEE'S TWO PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES -- FRONTIER FLORIDA THROUGH FICTION'S EYES -- IRIS WALL -- MODERN LANDSCAPES, MODERN LABYRINTHS -- SPECIES MUCK, FLOATING SANITORIA -- CONTEMPORARY FLORIDA -- CONNIE MAY FOWLER'S REMEMBERING BLUE AND THE ECOCENTRIC NOVEL -- PALM BEACH -- CAROL FROST AS FLORIDIAN -- NATURAL FLORIDA -- "RATHER THAN ABIDE AN ORDINARY LIFE" -- LUMBER MILLS, PHOSPHATE PITS, AND PHANTOM LAND -- ZORA NEALE HURSTON AND THE HURRICANE OF 1928 -- CREATIVE SHOWCASE -- SOMETHING LOST -- HE SPEAKS THE LANGUAGE OF ORCHIDS -- RECIPE FOR EXTINCTION -- IN THE JOY OF BELLICOSITY.