On Matters Southern

The late Marion Montgomery was professor emeritus of English at the University of Georgia. In 2003, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute honored Montgomery with the Gerhart Niemeyer Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship in Liberal Arts. He lived in Crawford, Georgia. Editor Michael M. Jordan is associate professor of English and department chairman at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where he has been teaching literature and composition for the last 15 years. He has written for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, Modern Age, The University Bookman, The Southern Partisan and other journals of scholarship and opinion.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Foreword by Eugene D. Genovese      Preface by Michael M. Jordan      PART I: THE AUTHOR AT WORK AND AT HOME1. The Country, Here      2. Of Mulls and Memories      PART II: ON PLACE AND REGION3. Georgia as a Place for Writers      4. Is Regional Writing Dead?      5. Ceremony and the Regional Spirit      6. The Sense of Violation: Notes Toward a Definition of "Southern" Fiction      7. Southern Letters in the Twentieth Century: The Articulation of a Tradition      PART III: ON FUGITIVES, AGRARIANS, AND NEW CRITICS8. Bells for John Stewart's Burden      9. The Agrarians: Here and Now      10. Misunderstanding Criticism      PART IV: ON INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS11. For Andrew, in Celebration      12. How to Get Here From There: A Tribute to Madison Jones on Our Passage through Gehenna      13. Remembering Who M.E. Bradford Is      14. Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal      PART V: ON BOOKS AND SCHOOLING15. Books, Books, Books: Difficult Choices in Time of Intellectual Stress      16. To My Son, Going Away to School      Books by Marion Montgomery      Index

“engaging...readers...will be rewarded in reading [Montgomery]”—Modern Age; “timely”—Weekly Standard; “I regard Marion Montgomery as one of the most acute and profound criticis of present-day American culture. He brings to his discussion of it penetrating insight and solid scholarship.”—Cleanth Brooks.