I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Anniversary) Anniversary Edition Contributor(s): Twelve Southerners (Author) |
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ISBN: 080713208X ISBN-13: 9780807132081 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2006 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 975 |
LCCN: 2006287659 |
Series: Library of Southern Civilization |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.12" W x 8.46" (1.08 lbs) 416 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve southerners-Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen Tate, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Herman Clarence Nixon, Frank Lawrence Owsley, John Crowe Ransom, John Donald Wade, and Robert Penn Warren-defended individualism against the trend of baseless conformity in an increasingly mechanized and dehumanized society. In her new introduction, Susan V. Donaldson shows that the Southern Agrarians might have ultimately failed in their efforts to revive the South they saw as traditional, stable, and unified, but they nonetheless sparked debates and quarrels about history, literature, race, gender, and regional identity that are still being waged today over Confederate flags, monuments, slavery, and public memory. |