All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way: Critical Discourse in the Old South
by Michael O'brien
2021-01-19 23:16:59
All Clever Men, Who Make Their Way: Critical Discourse in the Old South
by Michael O'brien
2021-01-19 23:16:59
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...
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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.
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