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The Apprehension of the South in Modern Culture

The Apprehension of the South in Modern Culture ESSAY The Apprehension of the South in Modern Culture by hen I went to the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate in 1 966, the South was deemed there to be a very minor part of the puzzle of American culture. American literature ^M ^HibbbbH but mostiy Henry James. Of southern authors only Faulkner had a significant hearing, though he was seen as a steamy exoticism, a sort of Henri Rousseau with a knowledge of the sexual utility of corncobs, not as one of the foremost modernists. As for history, the South was relevant to understanding the coming of the Civil War, as a problem to be deprecated, but litde more. Amer- Wa H^^^H was HenryJames, Melville, Emerson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, ican history was told as a succession of whiggish reform movements, of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, of Populism, Progressivism, and the New Deal. The South did not fit in, except as die occasional obstacle. To be interested in the South then was to be against the grain. Matters are very different now, not only in Cambridge but elsewhere in Europe, even in Japan. The existence of the Southern Studies Forum as a branch of the European Association of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

The Apprehension of the South in Modern Culture

O'Brien, Michael, --April 13-
Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (4) – Jan 4, 1998
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ESSAY The Apprehension of the South in Modern Culture by hen I went to the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate in 1 966, the South was deemed there to be a very minor part of the puzzle of American culture. American literature ^M ^HibbbbH but mostiy Henry James. Of southern authors only Faulkner had a significant hearing, though he was seen as a steamy exoticism, a sort of Henri Rousseau with a knowledge of the sexual utility of corncobs, not as one of the foremost modernists. As for history, the South was relevant to understanding the coming of the Civil War, as a problem to be deprecated, but litde more. Amer- Wa H^^^H was HenryJames, Melville, Emerson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, ican history was told as a succession of whiggish reform movements, of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, of Populism, Progressivism, and the New Deal. The South did not fit in, except as die occasional obstacle. To be interested in the South then was to be against the grain. Matters are very different now, not only in Cambridge but elsewhere in Europe, even in Japan. The existence of the Southern Studies Forum as a branch of the European Association of

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Published: Jan 4, 1998

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