The Southern Agrarians: With a New Preface by the Author (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780826513854)

The southern Agrarians were a group of twelve young men who joined, from 1929 to 1937, in a fascinating intellectual and political movement. Prominent among them were Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and Donald Davidson. In the midst of the depression, these gifted writers tried, as did so many other intellectuals, to plot the best cultural and economic choices open to southerners and Americans as a whole. That they failed to gain most of their goals does not diminish the significance of their crusade, or the enduring values that they espoused.

Interweaving group biography and intellectual history, Conkin traces how these young intellectuals came to write their classic manifesto, I'll Take My Stand, relates their political advocacy to the earlier Fugitive movement in poetry, and follows their careers after the Agrarian crusade fell apart. More than any other historian or critic, Conkin takes seriously the economic and political beliefs of these southern writers.

Author: Paul K. Conkin
ISBN-10: 0826513859
ISBN-13: 9780826513854
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2001
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.48h x 6.08w x 0.52d