A Southern Renaissance -- The Southern family romance and its context -- Modernizers and monumentalists: social thought in the 1930s -- Repetition and despairing monumentalism: William Faulkner and Will Percy -- Between repetition and recollection: Allen Tate and William Faulkner -- Working through: Faulkner's Go down Moses -- Narcissus grown analytical: Cash's Southern mind -- From therapy to morality: the example of Lillian Smith -- From theme to setting: Thomas Wolfe, James Agee, Robert Penn Warren -- The new Southern liberalism: V.O. Key, C. Vann Woodward, Robert Penn Warren.
