I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Anniversary)

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 080713208X ISBN13: 9780807132081 Release Date: November 2006 Publisher: LSU Press Length: 416 Pages Weight: 1.15 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.5" 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 mechanized and dehumanized 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, a