I'll Take My Stand The South and the Agrarian Tradition

Name: I'll Take My Stand The South and the Agrarian Tradition
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ISBN: 9780807132081

ISBN-10: 080713208X

ISBN-13: 9780807132081

Edition: 75th 2006

Authors: Susan V. Donaldson, Twelve Southerners, Twelve Southerners

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 75th
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: LSU Press
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Introduction : the Southern Agrarians and their cultural wars



Introduction : a statement of principles


Reconstructed but unregenerate



A mirror for artists



The irrepressible conflict



Education, past and present



A critique of the philosophy of progress



Remarks on the southern religion



Whither southern economy?



The hind tit



The briar patch



The life and death of Cousin Lucius



William Remington : a study in individualism



Not in memoriam, but in defense