I'll take my stand : the South and the agrarian tradition / by twelve southerners ; introd. by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. ; biographical essays by Virginia Rock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Library of Southern civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Civilization.

Southern States.

Civilization.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xlviii, 410 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1977]

Summary:

First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in history of the South. In it, twelve southerners-many of whom later became leading poets, novelists, and literary critics-defended individualism against the trend of baseless conformity in an increasingly mechanized and dehumanized society. As Louis Rubin notes in his new introduction, what they had to say then has an even greater significance today.

Contents:

Introduction : the Southern agrarians and their cultural wars / Susan V. Donaldson

Introduction : a statement of principles

Reconstructed but unregenerate / John Crowe Ransom

A mirror for artists / Donald Davidson

The irrepressible conflict / Frank Lawrence Owsley

Education, past and present / John Gould Fletcher

A critique of the philosophy of progress / Lyle H. Lanier

Remarks on the Southern religion / Allen Tate

Whither Southern economy? / Herman Clarence Nixon

The hind tit / Andrew Nelson Lytle

The briar patch / Robert Penn Warren

The life and death of cousin Lucius / John Donald Wade

William Remington : a study in individualism / Henry Blue Kline

Not in memorium, but in defense / Stark Young.

Notes:

Reprint of the ed. published by Harper, New York.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

0807103578 :

9780807103579

OCLC:

3168400