Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860: An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael O'Brien, Daniel Walker HoweTheme:Chronological Period/19th Century, Cultural Region/SouthPublish date:8/1/2012Pages:400
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807872680ISBN-10:0807872687UPC:9780807872680Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.60 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.522Product ID:SCDR959WXN
Michael O'Brien has masterfully abridged his award-winning two-volume intellectual history of the Old South, Conjectures of Order, depicting a culture that was simultaneously national, postcolonial, and imperial, influenced by European intellectual traditions, yet also deeply implicated in the making of the American mind.
Here O'Brien succinctly and fluidly surveys the lives and works of many significant Southern intellectuals, including John C. Calhoun, Louisa McCord, James Henley Thornwell, and George Fitzhugh. Looking over the period, O'Brien identifies a movement from Enlightenment ideas of order to a Romanticism concerned with the ambivalences of personal and social identity, and finally, by the 1850s, to an early realist sensibility. He offers a new understanding of the South by describing a place neither monolithic nor out of touch, but conflicted, mobile, and ambitious to integrate modern intellectual developments into its tense and idiosyncratic social experience.
Here O'Brien succinctly and fluidly surveys the lives and works of many significant Southern intellectuals, including John C. Calhoun, Louisa McCord, James Henley Thornwell, and George Fitzhugh. Looking over the period, O'Brien identifies a movement from Enlightenment ideas of order to a Romanticism concerned with the ambivalences of personal and social identity, and finally, by the 1850s, to an early realist sensibility. He offers a new understanding of the South by describing a place neither monolithic nor out of touch, but conflicted, mobile, and ambitious to integrate modern intellectual developments into its tense and idiosyncratic social experience.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9780807872680ISBN-10:0807872687UPC:9780807872680Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.90 x 5.60 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.522Product ID:SCDR959WXN
O'Brien, Michael: - Michael O'Brien (1948-2015) was professor of American intellectual history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the British Academy. He is author or editor of several books on Southern intellectual history, including Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
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