Southern Agrarians

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The Southern Agrarians were a group of early 20th-century American writers and intellectuals who championed traditional Southern rural values and criticized industrialization and modernity, most notably through their 1930 manifesto "I'll Take My Stand."

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural movement ⓘ
intellectual group ⓘ
literary movement ⓘ
activeInCentury 20th century ⓘ
associatedWithCity Nashville, Tennessee ⓘ
associatedWithRegion American South ⓘ
country United States ⓘ
critiqued mass culture ⓘ
technological progress as an end in itself ⓘ
focus critique of industrial capitalism ⓘ
critique of urbanization ⓘ
defense of traditional Southern rural life ⓘ
formedAround Vanderbilt University ⓘ
historicalContext interwar period ⓘ
ideology agrarianism ⓘ
influenced New Criticism ⓘ
postwar Southern literature ⓘ
keyTextType manifesto ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryGenre criticism ⓘ
essay ⓘ
member Allen Tate ⓘ
Andrew Lytle ⓘ
Cleanth Brooks ⓘ
Donald Davidson ⓘ
Frank Lawrence Owsley ⓘ
Henry Blue Kline ⓘ
Herman Clarence Nixon ⓘ
James McBride Dabbs ⓘ
John Crowe Ransom ⓘ
John Gould Fletcher ⓘ
Lyle H. Lanier ⓘ
Nash Burger ⓘ
Robert Penn Warren ⓘ
Stark Young ⓘ
movementAlsoKnownAs Fugitives and Agrarians ⓘ
notableWork I'll Take My Stand ⓘ
opposedTo industrialization ⓘ
modernity ⓘ
positionOnEconomy preference for small-scale agriculture ⓘ
positionOnSociety emphasis on community and tradition ⓘ
precededBy Fugitive Poets ⓘ
publicationYearOfNotableWork 1930 ⓘ
relatedField American studies ⓘ
literary criticism ⓘ
relatedMovement Southern Renaissance ⓘ
theme anti-modernism ⓘ
conservatism ⓘ
regionalism ⓘ

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John Crowe Ransom → memberOf → Southern Agrarians ⓘ
John Gould Fletcher → memberOf → Southern Agrarians ⓘ
Southern Renaissance → influencedBy → Southern Agrarianism ⓘ
linked to: Southern Agrarians
Allen Tate → movement → Southern Agrarians ⓘ
Allen Tate → memberOf → Southern Agrarians ⓘ
Robert Penn Warren → memberOf → Southern Agrarians ⓘ
God Without Thunder → movement → Southern Agrarianism ⓘ
linked to: Southern Agrarians
Two Gentlemen in Bonds → literaryMovement → Southern Agrarian movement ⓘ
linked to: Southern Agrarians
Fugitive Poets → influenced → Southern Agrarians ⓘ