In this magisterial history of intellectual life, Michael O'Brien analyzes the lives and works of
antebellum Southern thinkers and reintegrates the South into the larger tradition of American …

Bringing together Michael O'Brien's pathbreaking essays on the American South, this book
examines the persistence and vitality of southern intellectual history from the early …

In The Victorian Homefront, Louise L. Stevenson offers a concise and fascinating portrait of
the intellectual lives of ordinary Americans from the Civil War through Reconstruction. She …

The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall
Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of …

This study of American intellectual histories sketches their development from colonial
chronicles to today's professional scholarship. It concentrates upon the writings of a dozen …

The flowering of literary imagination known as the American Renaissance had few roots in
the South. While Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were creating a …

The coining of the term “intellectuals” in 1898 coincided with WEB Du Bois's effort to
disseminate values and ideals unbounded by the color line. Du Bois's ideal of a “higher and …

This historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important
they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry …

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In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges
and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and …