Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Superfluous Southerners and Gnostic Northerners: Southern Cultural Conservatism, Northern Pragmatism, and American Intellectual History
Chapter 2. Conservatism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century America: From Sectionalism to the New Humanism
Chapter 3. From the New Humanism to Agrarianism
Chapter 4. The Divided Minds of Agrarianism
Chapter 5. The Conservative Legacy of Agrarianism: Cleanth Brooks and Richard Weaver
Chapter 6. Southern Conservatism and Its Discontents: M. E. Bradford and the Modern American Right
Conclusion. The Southern Man of Letters in the Postmodern World
Notes
Bibliography
Index