Michael O’Brien 
Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860 [PDF ebook] 
An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order

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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 Mc Cord, 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.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 400 ● ISBN 9781469604015 ● Casa editrice The University of North Carolina Press ● Pubblicato 2010 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 6611727 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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