The mind of the South W.J. Cash ; with a new introduction by Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cash, W. J. (Wilbur Joseph), 1900-1941.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Southern States--Civilization.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

li, 444 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

Vintage books ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1991.

Summary:

Ever since its publication in 1941, this book has been recognized as a path-breaking work of scholarship and as a literary achievement of enormous eloquence and insight in its own right. From its investigation of the Southern class system to its pioneering assessments of the region's legacies of racism, religiosity, and romanticism, this book defined the way in which millions of readers- on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line- would see the South for decades to come. This new 50th anniversary edition includes an incisive analysis of the author himself and of his crucial place in the history of modern Southern letters. -- Publisher description

Discusses Southern culture and social conditions, and describes the intellectual attitudes of the New South.

Contents:

The mind of the South: its origin and development in the old South. Of time and frontiers ; Of the man at the center ; Of an ideal and conflict

The mind of the South: its curious career in the middle years. Of the frontier the Yankee made ; Of quandary, and the birth of a dream

The mind of the South: its survival, its modifications, and its operation in our time. Of easing tensions, and certain quiet years ; Of returning tensions, and the years the cuckoo claimed ; Of the great blight, and new quandaries.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 1941.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xlii-xliv) and index.

ISBN:

0679736476

9780679736479

OCLC:

23652142

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