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From the beginning, Virginians have styled their government a conservative commonwealth, seeking stability amid change and often fashioning change to fit their concept of what Virginia-and America-should be like. In the eighteenth century Golden Age, Virginia was a world of broad acres and country gentlemen. To preserve the world, Virginians led a revolution and helped to found a government that they believed would secure their children's futu...

John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren--each began his career as one of the coterie of southern poets centered at Vanderbilt University who attracted national attention with their publication of The Fugitive magazine in the early 1920s and the celebrated essays in I'll Take My Stand. Collectively known as the Fugitives (or Agrarians as they were later called) they became ardent and influential participants in th...

One of the country's more perceptive younger critics, Louis Rubin is well known for his commentaries on the literature of the South. These essays--selected from his critical works over a period of more than a dozen years--reflect his wider concern with the whole spectrum of American literature. In the title essay Rubin treats "tired literary critics" and the often-heard pronouncement that the novel is dead. He argues that the response of novel...

The flowering of literary imagination known as the American Renaissance had few roots in the South. While Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman were creating a body of work that would endure, the only southern writer making a lasting contribution was Edgar Allan Poe. This failure on the part of antebellum southern writers has long been a subject of debate among students of southern history and literature. Now one of the region's m...

Award-winning author Louis D Rubin Jr discusses writing and writers based on his own experience. The works of William Faulkner, T S Eliot, William Wordsworth and other English literary giants figure in the book. It concludes with a look at today's literary situation, a diagnosis of how it got where it is, and some recommendations for rescuing it.

Offers essays, beginning with the outbreak of the Great War in Europe in 1914 and covering events of subsequent years, that examine historical issues in a fresh way. This book takes in a panoramic view of German militarism, the American role in the war, and British and American politics and politicos.

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Growing up in Charleston in the 1930s and 1940s, Louis Rubin witnessed firsthand the gradations of caste and class among neighbourhoods from south of Broad Street where established families and traditional mores held sway to the enclaves of Uptown in which middle-class and blue-collar families went about their own lives and routines. Rubin draws on autobiography and imagination to capture the atmosphere of the city during an era when the popul...

Anyone who has ever bought and owned a boat -- or wondered why people are obsessed by them -- will love this amusing, evocative, beautifully crafted memoir by an inveterate boat-owner.

A series of briskly paced renderings of the Holy City's dual identities, written by an acclaimed native son

Another intelligent and companionable book from Rubin (An Honorable Estate, 2001, etc.), a family story "to try to understand who my father's family were, and what they meant for and about me." Rubin's grandfather Hymen, born in 1862, came to the US and settled ("probably in 1886") in Charleston, South Carolina, where he and his wife produced a family of four boys and three girls, one of them the author's father. Disaster struck, however, in 1...

In A Writer's Companion, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., has drawn on his years of accumulated wisdom - as well as the advice of some fifty prominent writers from various fields - to put together in a single volume a vast array of information. Organized in such a way as to make it exceptionally easy to use, and enhanced by Rubin's graceful and witty prose, A Writer's Companion will merit a place on the desk of every serious wordsmith. It is also a book t...

A pictorial memoir of railroading during the days when trains were still the dominant mode of American intercity travel. This account tells of the role railroads played in Rubin's life as a child and as an adult in search of vocation.