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title	:	Pastoral and Politics in the Old South Southern Literary Studies
author	:	Grammer, John M.
publisher	:	Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0807121177
print isbn13	:	9780807121177
ebook isbn13	:	9780585299983
language	:	English
subject	Southern States--Intellectual life--19th century, American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism, Southern States--Civilization--1775-1865.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	F213.G72 1996eb
ddc	:	975/.03
subject	:	Southern States--Intellectual life--19th century, American literature--Southern States--History and criticism, American literature--1783-1850--History and criticism, Southern States--Civilization--1775-1865.

Page iii Pastoral and Politics in the Old South

Page iv Southern Literary Studies Fred Hobson, Editor

Page v Pastoral and Politics in the Old South John Grammer

Page vi Copyright 1996 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 5 4 3 2 1 Designer: Michele Myatt Typeface: Goudy Typesetter: Impressions Book and Journal Services, Inc. Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grammer, John M., 1957 Pastoral and politics in the old South / John M. Grammer. p. cm. (Southern literary studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8071-2117-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Southern StatesIntellectual life19th century. 2. American literatureSouthern StatesHistory and criticism. 3. American literature17831850History and criticism. 4. Southern States Civilization17751865. I. Title. II. Series. F213.G72 1997 975'.03dc20 96-22786 CIP The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.

Page vii For Elizabeth For my father, John C. Grammer, Jr. To the memory of my mother, Jessica Turpin Grammer

Page ix Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1 John Taylor and the Image of the Good Society 20 2 John Randolph and the Politics of Disappointment 46 3 Nathaniel Beverley Tucker and the Historical Romance of the Future 69 4 George Fitzhugh Among the Cannibals: Sociology and the South 98 5 Joseph Glover Baldwin and the Language of Virtue 128 Conclusion: After the Lost War 159 Bibliography 169 Index 179

Page xi Acknowledgments Though the writing of this book spanned several years and two states, I have found myself continually surrounded by wise and generous friends, and I wish to express my gratitude to them. At the University of Virginia, Stephen Arch, Deborah Garfield, Anne MacMaster, Catherine Wilcoxson Parrish, and Monica Brzezinski Potkay all offered helpful advice. Also at Virginia, J. C. Levenson, Edward Ayers, and especially Alan Howard read the manuscript with critical eyes and made valuable suggestions. John Ernest, best of graduate school friends, spent many hours with me and my book, arguing and encouraging, and in the years since we left Charlottesville, he has been tireless in urging me to get the thing in final form and in printfor all of which I offer heartfelt thanks. At the University of the South I have been similarly fortunate. John Willis promptly and thoroughly answered every historical question I asked him and alerted me to valuable sources. The incomparable Mariana Johnson was of enormous help in preparing the index. Woody Register, most collegial of colleagues, offered prudent counsel at one crucial turn and friendship, commiseration, and wry irony throughout. The late Edwin Murdoch Stirling, the English Department chairman who hired me, never read a word of this book, but he did everything else imaginable to make me and Elizabeth feel at home in Sewanee and provided as well an example of teaching as a moral commitment that continues to inspire me. And I hardly know where to begin thanking Wyatt Prunty, who nagged me until I finally showed him my manuscript, read it, pronounced it publishable, and then nagged me some more until I submitted it to the press. Every brand-new professor should be blessed with such a mentor.

Page xii Lewis Simpson read an unsolicited manuscript from a complete stranger with extraordinary care and offered much useful advice; Fred Hobson did the same for Louisiana State University Press, and the finished product is richer for their suggestions. I thank them both for their kindness. Through the whole business my greatest debt has been to David Levin, exemplary elder and dear friend. He directed my work with wit, tact, patience, and generous encouragement, and in these early years of my teaching career he has been a mentor, adviser, and above all a model of what a scholar and teacher ought to be. As all his former students know, he sets us a formidable example of integrity, open-mindedness, and unfailing kindness.

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