In his book the Democratic Promise, Lawrence Goodwyn wrote of populism sympathetically as an authentic popular movement with a coherent and historically unique vision of a "democratic commonwealth." Goodwyn and Hofstadter clearly disagreed on the merits of populism, but their writings were, in effect, the bookends of a revised historical consensus about the nature and geography of the movement, one that emphasized its
southernness and radicalism over the more moderate and political wing in the West.
Next up for Porteous is the Scottish Amateur Strokeplay Championship at
Southernness in Dumfries, which starts a week tomorrow.
Most importantly, contemporary poets are still claiming "
southernness," suggesting that despite growing Americanization and globalization, to be "southern" still bears heavily on poetic craft.
just go with the flow, and you could get approval, a trendy sense of superiority, and--if you were a Southerner like me--some degree of redemption from the original sin of
Southernness.
Thus, pastoral became an essential component in the shaping of a distinctly Southern identity, a set of ideas and images upon which white Southern writers could construct a notion of essential
Southernness. As Grammer observes, the Southern pastoral mythos "encountered one great obstacle" in that the coercive nature of slavery appeared at odds with the ideal of agrarian serenity (12).
Yet Stephens notes that the "
southernness" of the early movement is questionable, given the holiness tendency to breach sectional standards regarding race, gender, and class and to attack the predominant evangelicalism of the South as morally lax and spiritually deficient.
Burden expurgates his
Southernness as the condition of his Americanness.
Sims might also have attempted to downplay her "
southernness" in her attempt to secure amnesty.
This dystopic
southernness, too, Coetzee analyses in White Writing; and its intriguing intellectual resistances are aspects that may have informed and subtended his interest in immigrating to Australia in the first place.
Her eye is sharp, especially about how complacent
Southernness undercuts itself: We have a girls' college here too but the lacy atmosphere is fortunately destroyed by a reformatory, an insane asylum, and a military school.
If that condition is not put in place as an oversight, then all the people in North Sudan will claim
Southernness on the referendum day.