Heartland of the imagination
Subtitle: conservative values in American literature from Poe to O'Connor to Haruf
By: Jeffrey J. Folks
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jefferson, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780786459766
Subjects: Tradition (Philosophy); Conservatism in literature; History and criticism; American literature; American Authors; Political and social views
Description: "This book focuses on works of conservative American writers and others who have written of America. Beginning with the work of Poe, the book explores the traditionalist temper in books by Lindsay, Dostoevsky, Hitchcock, Naipaul, and Haruf. Drawing on the theories of Simpson, Kolakowski, Scruton, and Himmelfarb, among others, this text offers a significant aspect of American culture"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Poe and The cogito; title: Poe and Lindsay, literary outcasts; title: Vachel Lindsay's covenant with America; title: Agee and Dostoyevsky: two writers possessed; title: Flannery O'Connor's conservatism: a reading of The violent bear it away; title: Naipaul's turn in the American south; title: The fiction of Kent Haruf; title: Epilogue: The dialect of the tribe.