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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462165503321

Autore

Langdale John J. <1971->

Titolo

Superfluous Southerners [[electronic resource] ] : cultural conservatism and the South 1920-1990 / / by John J. Langdale, III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8262-7285-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

320.520973

Soggetti

Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century

Conservatism and literature

Agrarians (Group of writers)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- The Southern man of letters in the postmodern world -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.