Irony and Southern Authorship

Conjectures of Orderis witness to the fully amphibious O'Brien: it not only takes us down an extraordinarily deep and fresh river of ideas and texts in the Old South, but often puts us ashore to see the institutions, libraries, lecture rooms, publishing houses, parlors, and human relationships...

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Published in:The Mississippi quarterly 2004-12, Vol.58 (1), p.175-182
Main Author: STOWE, STEVEN M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
American history
Authorship
British & Irish literature
English literature
Historical text analysis
Intellectuals
Irony
Libraries
Social history
Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941)
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Summary:Conjectures of Orderis witness to the fully amphibious O'Brien: it not only takes us down an extraordinarily deep and fresh river of ideas and texts in the Old South, but often puts us ashore to see the institutions, libraries, lecture rooms, publishing houses, parlors, and human relationships of which only the texts and ideas remain. In supporting the new Southern regime in 1861, writers and thinkers of all sorts-even those intellectuals who, O'Brien writes as if wishing to disbelieve, "understood things about the intractability of the human condition"-embraced a deadly future with passion (1202).
ISSN:0026-637X