All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way - Critical Discourse in the Old South

Informationen zum Autor MICHAEL O'BRIEN was Reader in American Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Jesus College. He is founder of the Southern Intellectual History Circle and series editor of the Publications of the Southern Texts Society. O'Brien is the author or editor of several books on southern intellectual history, including the Bancroft Prize-winner, Conjectures of Order . Klappentext From the pages of forgotten journals and literary magazines Michael O'Brien assembles fourteen pieces that effectively challenge the long-prevailing notion that the mind of the Old South was superficial! unintellectual! and obsessed with race and slavery. In this book are discourses on subjects ranging from English empirical thought to neoclassical aesthetics! from the enfranchisement of women to transcendental theology! from the works of Hawthorne and Emerson to the social system of Virginia.

Product details

• Authors: Michael O'Brien, Michael O''brien
• Assisted by: Michael O'Brien (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2008
• EAN: 9780820332017
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3201-7
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Brown Thrasher Books
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature - Classics / Criticism, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General