I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian TraditionFirst 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. |
Contents
Introduction | xi |
A Statement of Principles | xxxvii |
Reconstructed but Unregenerate | 1 |
The Irrepressible Conflict | 61 |
Education Past and Present | 92 |
A Critique of the Philosophy of Progress | 122 |
Whither Southern Economy? | 176 |
Andrew Nelson Lytle | 201 |
Robert Penn Warren | 246 |
The Life and Death of Cousin Lucius | 265 |
A Study in Individualism | 302 |
Not In Memoriam But In Defense | 328 |
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