Conjectures of Order Set: Intellectual Life and the American South, 1810-1860

by 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807828009
• ISBN13: 9780807828007
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 1360 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"