Volume 30, Number 3 · March 3, 1983
Southern Exposure
By C. Vann Woodward
The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South, 1919-1945
by Daniel Joseph Singal
University of North Carolina Press, 453 pp., $12.00 (paper)
The transition from Victorian to modernist culture was, of course, not peculiar to the South, but it did take on some striking peculiarities in that region. Elsewhere in most of Western society the battle was fought and won before it was fairly begun down South. There it did not really get started until after the First World War and was all but finished, at least among intellectuals, by the time of the Second. It was therefore both delayed and foreshortened, more intense and more poignant, and it incidentally coincided with a literary renaissance of some note.
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