The fable of the southern writer

The fable of the Agrarians and the failure of the American republic

A fable of white and black : Jefferson, Madison, Tate

History and the will of the artist : Elizabeth Madox Roberts

War and memory : Quentin Compson's Civil War

The tenses of history : Faulkner

The poetry of criticism : Allen Tate

The loneliness artist : Robert Penn Warren

The last casualty of the Civil War : Arthur Crew Inman

From Thoreau to Walker Percy : home by way of California ; or, the end of the Southern Renascence.