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2011 Abbeville Institute Summer
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NINTH
ANNUAL ABBEVILLE INSTITUTE SUMMER SCHOOL
"The Greatness of Southern Literature, Part II "
Seabrook Island, South Carolina, July 24- 29, 2011
TOPIC: The American South has been called “not a nation within the nation, but the next thing to it.” From its 17th century beginnings the South has had its own ways of thinking (that have sometimes been the predominant American ways). The Southern intellectual tradition is a long and distinguished one and provides a revealing difference from (and distance from) what has come to be regarded as “mainstream” American thought. The 2010 Abbeville Institute Summer School dealt with “The Greatness of Southern Literature” by examining the South’s creative writers in poetry and novels.
The 2011 topic for “The Greatness of Southern Literature” was a study of the South’s nonfiction writers: Thomas Jefferson, John Taylor of Caroline, Abel Upshur, John C. Calhoun, Robert L. Dabney, Basil Gildersleeve, Louisa McCord, Richard Weaver, M.E. Bradford, Wendell Berry, Shelby Foote, George Garrett, Tom Wolfe, and others. Their merits as writers in political philosophy, theology, law, history, satire, humor, and other topics was explored as well as what their work reveals about Southern character and its critique of American modernity.
Faculty
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John Devanny |
James Kibler |
Jay Langdale |
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Donald Livingston |
Samuel Smith |
Karen Stokes |
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Jonathan White |
Clyde Wilson |
William Wilson |
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