Journal of Southern History, August 1st, 2002
By Thomas A. Underwood. (Princeton, N.J., and Oxford, Eng.: Princeton University Press, c. 2000. Pp. viii, 447. $35.00, ISBN 0-691-06950-6.) Twenty years ago Michael O'Brien (The Idea of the American South, 1920-1941 [Baltimore, 1979]) and Daniel J. Singal (The War Within [Chapel Hill, 1982]) used incisive biographical studies to place the construction of a southern intellectual culture within the sweep of twentieth-century modernism. Thomas A. Underwood acknowledges their influence in his impressive examination of Allen Tate's life through 1938 while disagreeing that the rediscovery of south...
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