Conjectures of order. Volume 1 : intellectual life and the American South, 1810-1860 / Michael O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Michael, 1948-2015, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectuals--Southern States--History--19th century.

Intellectuals.

Southern States--Intellectual life.

Southern States.

Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.

Southern States--Relations--Europe.

Europe--Relations--Southern States.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1374 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this magisterial history of intellectual life, Michael O'Brien analyzes the lives and works of antebellum Southern thinkers and reintegrates the South into the larger tradition of American and European intellectual history. O'Brien finds that the evolution of Southern intellectual life paralleled and modified developments across the Atlantic by moving from a late Enlightenment sensibility to Romanticism and, lastly, to an early form of realism. Volume 1 describes the social underpinnings of the Southern intellect by examining patterns of travel and migration; the formation of ideas

Contents:

Volume 1; Contents; Contents; Abbreviations; Abbreviations; Introduction. The Position and Course of the South; Book I. The Softened Echo of the World; Book II. All the Tribes, All the Productions of Nature; Book III. A Volley of Words; Volume 2; Book IV. The Shape of a History; Book V. Pride and Power; Book VI. Philosophy and Faith; Epilogue. The Imprisoned Bird; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1203-1292) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8078-6373-4

OCLC:

476237236