Research Catalog

Title

Superfluous Southerners : cultural conservatism and the South, 1920-1990 / John J. Langdale III.

Author

Langdale, John J., III, 1971-

Publication

Columbia, Mo. ; London : University of Missouri Press, c2012.

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Description

x, 177 p.; 25 cm.

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Project Muse UPCC books.

Alternative Title

Cultural conservatism and the South, 1920-1990

Subject

• Agrarians (Group of writers)
• Conservatism > Southern States > History > 20th century
• Conservatism and literature > Southern States
• Criticism > Southern States > History > 20th century
• Southern States > Civilization > 20th century
• Southern States > Intellectual life > 20th century

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Florida, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-170) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Superfluous southerners and gnostic northerners: southern cultural conservatism, northern pragmatism, and American intellectual history -- Conservatism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America: from sectionalism to the new humanism -- From the new humanism to agrarianism -- The divided minds of agrarianism -- The conservative legacy of agrarianism: Cleanth Brooks and Richard Weaver -- Southern conservatism and its discontents: M.E. Bradford and the modern American right -- The southern man of letters in the postmodern world.

ISBN

• 9780826219855
• 0826219853

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library