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The idea of the American South, 1920-1941

Main Author: O'Brien, Michael, 1948-2015.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1979]
Physical Description: xvii, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 97th series, no. 1.
Subjects:
American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Southern States.
Southern States -- Intellectual life -- 1865-
Southern States -- Civilization.
Southern States -- In literature.
United States -- Civilization -- 1918-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1.
  • Legacy.
  • On the idea of the South : origins, mutation, and fragmentation
  • pt. 2.
  • Sociological vision : Howard Odum.
  • Odum : sociology in the South ;
  • Odum : Southern sociology ;
  • Odum : the failure of regionalism
  • Entr'acte.
  • A still point : John Wade.
  • Wade : a turning inward
  • pt. 3.
  • Reaction to modernism : the Southern agrarians.
  • John Ransom : the cycle of commitment ;
  • Allen Tate : "the punctilious abyss" ;
  • Frank Owsley : "the immoderate past" ;
  • Donald Davidson : "the creed of memory"
  • pt. 4.
  • Survival of Southern identity.
  • Idea of the South : an interpretation.

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