First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve southerners-Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen Tate, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Herman Clarence Nixon, Frank Lawrence Owsley, John Crowe Ransom, John Donald Wade, and Robert Penn Warren-defended individualism against the trend of baseless conformity in an increasingly mechanised and dehumanised society. 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.
About the AuthorSusan V. Donaldson is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of English at the College of William and Mary. She is the author of
Competing Voices: The American Novel, 1865--1914, selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book, and coeditor of
Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts.Book InformationISBN 9780807132081
Author Susan V. DonaldsonFormat Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Louisiana State University PressPublisher Louisiana State University Press
Weight(grams) 333g