Title: The reactionary imperative : essays literary & political /
Authors: Bradford, M. E. 1934-1993.
Publisher: S. Sugden,
Year: 1990
Subjects: American literature History and criticism; Conservatism United States; United States Politics and government.
Contents: PART 1 : Literature and the Politics of Culture -- Artists at Home: Frost and Faulkner -- The Form and Pressure of Our Time: The Social Role of Modern Drama -- The Vocation of Norman Podhoretz -- PART 2 : An Instance Expanded -- Brotherhood in 'The Bear' -- Brother, Son, and Heir: The Structural Focus of Faulkner's 'Absalom, Absalom!' -- Certain Laidies of Quality: Faulkner's View of Women and the Evidence of 'There Was a Queen' -- PART 3 : Politics Per Se -- Rhetoric and Respectability: Conservatives and the Problem of Language -- On Being Conservative in a Post-Liberal Era -- Undone by Victory: Political Success and the Subversion of Conservative Politics -- Where We Were Born and Raised: The Southern Conservative Tradition -- Is the American Experience Conservative? -- PART 4 : The Modern Spirit and Its Adversaries -- "The Last Great Englishman" -- A Lion in the North: The Persistence of Sir Walter Scott -- A Virginia Cato: John Taylor of Caroline and the Agrarian Republic -- What We Can Know for Certain: Frank Owsley and the Recovery of Southern History -- What Made Lyndon Run: A Political Parable -- The Strange Career of C. Vann Woodward -- A Writ of Fire and Sword: The Politics of Oliver Cromwell -- Against Lincoln: A Speech at Gettysburg.