Intellectual Life and the American South 1810 1860 An Abridged Edition of Conjectures of Order 1st Edition by Michael O Brien, Daniel Walker Howe ISBN 978-0807872680 0807834009

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ISBN 10:   0807834009

ISBN 13: 978-0807872680

Author: Michael O’Brien, Daniel Walker Howe 

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.

Table of contents: 

1. The Softened Echo of the World
2. All the Tribes, All the Productions of Nature
3. A Volley of Words
4. The Shape of a History
5. Pride and Power
6. Philosophy and Faith

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