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Author:

Langdale, John J., III, 1971-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Missouri Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

x, 177 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Florida, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-170) and index.

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:

0826219853
9780826219855

OCLC:

(OCoLC)792881673

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)