Pastoral and Politics in the Old South (Southern Literary Studies)

Five biographical and critical sketches of Virginians over the period from 1810 to 1861 document the creation of the South as a concept in American culture. Three were politicians with a literary bent, the other two fiction writers fascinated with politics. They shared a desire to represent the South as a refuge of pastoral and republican order as the post-revolutionary era was transformed by urbanization, industrialization, capitalist expansion, and the concentration of wealth. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.