| The Southern Agrarians: With a New Preface by the Author Revised Edition Contributor(s): Conkin, Paul K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826513859 ISBN-13: 9780826513854 Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: The southern Agrarians were a group of twelve young men who joined, from 1929 to 1937, in a fascinating intellectual and political movement. Interweaving group biography and intellectual history, Paul Conkin traces how these young intellectuals came to write their classic manifesto, I'll Take My Stand. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | Social History - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 810.997 |
| LCCN: 2001026184 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.08" W x 8.48" (0.71 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - South |
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| Publisher Description: The southern Agrarians were a group of twelve young men who joined, from 1929 to 1937, in a fascinating intellectual and political movement. Prominent among them were Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and Donald Davidson. In the midst of the depression, these gifted writers tried, as did so many other intellectuals, to plot the best cultural and economic choices open to southerners and Americans as a whole. That they failed to gain most of their goals does not diminish the significance of their crusade, or the enduring values that they espoused. Interweaving group biography and intellectual history, Conkin traces how these young intellectuals came to write their classic manifesto, I'll Take My Stand, relates their political advocacy to the earlier Fugitive movement in poetry, and follows their careers after the Agrarian crusade fell apart. More than any other historian or critic, Conkin takes seriously the economic and political beliefs of these southern writers. |
Contributor Bio(s): Conkin, Paul K.: - Paul K. Conkin is Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University.Conkin, Paul K.: - Paul K. Conkin is Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, at Vanderbilt University. |