SOURCE: Cowan, Louise. “Innocent Doves: Ransom's Feminine Myth of the South.” In American Letters and the Historical Consciousness: Essays in Honor of Lewis P. Simpson, edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Daniel Mark Fogel, pp. 191-213. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.
In the following essay, Cowan elucidates Ransom's Southern attitude toward women as evinced in his poetry.
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