The Life and Death of Cousin Lucius by John Donald Wade is my favorite of the collection as it follows the life of a man who was a teenager ar the end of the Civil War up through the 1920s and the changes which took place in the South and one MSN’s Stoic reaction to it. This book is an all-time favorite of mine. Why would you post the offensive, poorly written screed that is featured in the review section of this book? 13. John Crowe Ransom was their unofficial leader, though Robert Penn Warren became their most prominent member. Ich möchte dieses Buch auf dem Kindle lesen. 0 Reviews . Northerners had free range to exaggerate or depict Northern views about Southern life. The rural romantic in me is attracted to some of the arguments here, particularly the critiques of industrial societies. Even though I'm deep into studying the time before, during and after the civil. Available online At the library. Though I would not give all twelve essays in the book five stars, each essay made its own contribution to the overall tone of the book, and some were so outstanding that I cannot fault it. A good book in light of issues facing the nation today, and a good way of learning what Southerners were worried about in the 1920's. but not for any other reason I can think of. Helpful. Table of Contents. Twelve Southerners--I'll Take My Stand (1930) The Agrarians were a collection of writers primarily from Vanderbilt University, an offshoot of a poetic movement who called themselves the Fugitive Poets. I'll Take My Stand: South and the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civili. At the center of the Agrarian position was a retrograde turn to Jeffersonian agrarianism, which was a self-serving fantasy in his time - the South the Agrarians argued for never existed, and their resistance to industrial capitalism thinly veils a false nostalgia laced with racism and elitism. 4.0 out of 5 stars Good retrospective. The Southern Agrarians were twelve American Southerners who wrote an agrarian literary manifesto in 1930. The current rise in popularity of the New Agrarians vindicates the cause for which these essayists pled. Zugelassene Drittanbieter verwenden diese Tools auch in Verbindung mit der Anzeige von Werbung durch uns. By Andrew Nelson Lytle. 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. It is interesting to see how opinions have, or haven't, changed in the past several decades. ISBN: 0813919959 9780813919959: OCLC Number: 45463645: Description: xi, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Contents. In my opinion, however, the book is useful for students of Southern history and culture as well as for anyone interested in reading a humane response to societal questions. I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition No preview available - 2006. $59.78 . I knew I'd like the topic (Agrarian South), but would I enjoy a bunch of 30-paged essays written by authors I'd never heard of before (give or take a few). Can't agree more with the lost cause of the Southern Agrarians. $29.89. This is an amazing collection of essays written by Southern poets, historians and novelists. Those who are unsatisfied with modern society, Though I would not give all twelve essays in the book five stars, each essay made its own contribution to the overall tone of the book, and some were so outstanding that I cannot fault it. In particular, I liked John Crowe Ransom's discussion of the ideology of Progress, which I think explains a lot of the inconsistencies and blunders of today's progressives. If nothing else, this collection of essays memorializes the loss of a way of life, one that has now been lost so completely that some definitive boundary, a point of no return, must have been passed not long after it was written. But even those lacked...), I learned about this book from reading George Nash's.
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