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