Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Florida, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-170) and index.
English.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Superfluous Southerners and gnostic Northerners : Southern cultural conservatism, Northern pragmatism, and American intellectual history -- Conservatism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century America : from sectionalism to the new humanism -- From the new humanism to agrarianism -- The divided minds of agrarianism -- The conservative legacy of agrarianism : Cleanth Brooks and Richard Weaver -- Southern conservatism and its discontents : M.E. Bradford and the modern American right -- Conclusion -- The Southern man of letters in the postmodern world -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index