Cavalier myth and Victorian culture: the nineteenth-century background -- pt. 1. Three Southern post-Victorians: Ulrich B. Phillips: the old South as the new -- Broadus Mitchell: the new South as the old -- Ellen Glasgow and the Tidewater Renaissance -- pt. 2. Modernists by the skin of their teeth: Howard W. Odum and social science in the South -- William Faulkner and the discovery of Southern evil -- Agrarian response to modernism -- Divided mind of Allen Tate -- pt. 3. Modernist generation arrives: Critical temperament unleashed: William Terry Couch and Southern publishing -- New sociology and the South -- Robert Penn Warren: the Southerner as modernist.
