Michael O'Brien
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Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860
Michael O'Brien
In this magisterial history of intellectual life, Michael O’Brien analyzes the lives and works of antebellum Southern thinkers and reintegrates the South into the larger tradition of American and European intellectual history.
O’Brien finds that the evolution of Southern intellectual life paralleled and modified developments across the Atlantic by moving from a late Enlightenment sensibility to Romanticism and, lastly, to an early form of realism. Volume 1 describes the social underpinnings of the Southern intellect by examining patterns of travel and…
