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1.

Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance » Read Now
by Mark Royden Winchell. 386 pgs.

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The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought » Read Now
by Paul V. Murphy. 351 pgs.

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In 1930, a group of southern intellectuals led by John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren published "I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. A stark attack on industrial capitalism and a defiant celebration of southern culture, the book has raised the...
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In 1930, a group of southern intellectuals led by John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren published "I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition. A stark attack on industrial capitalism and a defiant celebration of southern culture, the book has raised the hackles of critics and provoked passionate defenses from southern loyalists ever since. As Paul Murphy shows, its effects on the evolution of American conservatism have been enduring as well.
Tracing the Agrarian tradition from its origins in the 1920s through the present day, Murphy shows how what began as a radical conservative movement eventually became, alternately, a critique of twentieth-century American liberalism, a defense of the Western tradition and Christian humanism, and a form of southern traditionalism--which could include a defense of racial segregation. Although Agrarianism failed as a practical reform movement, its intellectual influence was wide-ranging, Murphy says. This influence expanded as Ransom, Tate, and Warren gained reputations as leaders of the New Criticism. More notably, such "neo-Agrarians" as Richard M. Weaver and M. E. Bradford transformed Agrarianism into a form of social and moral traditionalism that has had a significant impact on the emerging conservative movement since World War II.
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"Unto All Generations of the Faithful Heart": Donald Davidson, the Vanderbilt Agrarians, and Appalachian Poetry, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by Jim Clark. 15 pgs.

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Before the New Criticism: Modernism and the Nashville Group, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now
by Karen O'Kane. multiple pages pgs.

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5.

Caring and Working: An Agrarian Perspective, in The Christian Century » Read Now
by Norman Wirzba. 303 pgs.

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The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945 (Chap. 7 "The Agrarian Response to Modernism") » Read Now
by Daniel Joseph Singal. 456 pgs.

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Daniel Joseph Singal examines this struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth-century America and the South's tenacious blend of Victorianism and the Cavalier myth.
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Faulkner, Sut, and Other Southerners: Essays in Literary History ("The Agrarians" begins on p. 71) » Read Now
by M. Thomas Inge. 237 pgs.

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Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert Vance (Chap. 5 "Is Agrarianism for Farmers? (1935)") » Read Now
by John Shelton Reed, Daniel Joseph Singal, Rupert Bayless Vance. 353 pgs.

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9.

Inventing Southern Literature (Chap. I "The South of the Agrarians") » Read Now
by Michael Kreyling. 206 pgs.

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A skeptical view of the way the mainstream has defined & studied southern literature.
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Donald Davidson (Disscusion of Agrarians begins on p. 123) » Read Now
by M. Thomas Inge, Thomas Daniel Young. 173 pgs.

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Southern Liberal Journalists and the Issue of Race, 1920-1944 (Chap.4 "About Face or Forward March?) » Read Now
by John T. Kneebone. 314 pgs.

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Serpent in Eden: H. L. Mencken and the South (Chap. 7 "Beyond Mencken: The Agrarians and the South ") » Read Now
by Fred C. Hobson, Gerald W. Johnson. 242 pgs.

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