A01=Daniel Joseph Singal
Allen Tate
American Studies
Arthur Raper
Author_Daniel Joseph Singal
Broadus Mitchell
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Donald Davidson
Ellen Glasgow
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Guy Johnson
Howard Odum
John Crowe Ransom
Modernism
New South Creed
Robert Penn Warren
Rupert Vance
South
Ulrich B. Phillips
William Faulkner
William T. Couch
Product details
- ISBN 9780807840870
- Weight: 644g
- Dimensions: 153 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 14 Oct 1982
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The years after World War I saw a different sort of war in the American South, as Modernism began to contest the ""New South Creed"" for the allegiance of Southern intellectuals. In The War Within , Daniel Joseph Singal examines the struggle between the characteristic culture of twentieth-century America and the South's tenacious blend of Victorianism and the Cavalier myth. He explores the lives and works of historians Ulrich B. Phillips and Broadus Mitchell; novelists Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, and Robert Penn Warren; publisher William T. Couch; sociologists Howard Odum, Rupert Vance, Guy Johnson, and Arthur Raper; and Agrarian poets John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and Allen Tate. The drama Singal unfolds is as much national as regional in its implications. His sophisticated and original analysis of the complex relationship between these southern writers and their heritage enables him to trace the transition to Modernism with unusual clarity and to address questions of major importance in American intellectual history: How did Modernism come into being? Does it display a fundamental, underlying pattern? What are its essential values, beliefs, and assumptions? Singal marshals archival and published sources and combines them with oral history interviews to trace this process of change on the levels of both formal thought and individual experience. He uses the interwar South as the locale for a pioneering examination of the momentous change that has affected all of Western culture.
Daniel Joseph Singal is assistant professor of history at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is editor, with John Shelton Reed, of Regionalism and the South: Selected Papers of Rupert Vance.
