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Conservative strands in American literature are often overlooked in university courses. This book focuses on the works of conservative American writers and of others who have written of America from a conservative perspective. Beginning with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, the book explores the traditionalist temper in books by Vachel Lindsay, James Agee, Flannery O'Connor, V.S. Naipaul, and Kent Haruf. Drawing on the theories of Lewis P. Simpson, Leszek Kolakowski, Roger Scruton, and Gertrude Himmelfarb, among others, this text offers a fresh examination of a significant aspect of American literature.
Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Poe and the Cogito
2. Poe and Lindsay, Literary Outcasts
3. Vachel Lindsay's Covenant with America
4. Agee and Dostoevsky: Two Writers Possessed
5. Flannery O'Connor's Conservatism: A Reading of The Violent Bear It Away
6. Naipaul's Turn in the American South
7. The Fiction of Kent Haruf
Epilogue: The Dialect of the Tribe
Works Cited
Index