The war within : from Victorian to modernist thought in the South, 1919-1945 /
Daniel Joseph Singal.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)1982.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 453 pages) : portraits.
- The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cavalier myth and Victorian culture: the nineteenth-century background -- Three Southern post-Victorians -- -- Ulrich B. Phillips: the old South as the new -- Broadus Mitchell: the new South as the old -- Ellen Glasgow and the Tidewater Renaissance -- Modernists by the skin of their teeth -- -- Howard W. Odum and social science in the South -- William Faulkner and the discovery of Southern evil -- The agrarian response to modernism -- The divided mind of Allen Tate -- The modernist generation arrives -- -- The critical temperament unleashed: William Terry Couch and Southern publishing -- The new sociology and the South -- Robert Penn Warren: the Southerner as modernist.