The Achievement of Wendell Berry: The Hard History of Love

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Contents Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1. Practices, Particulars, and Virtues: What Mules Taught Wendell Berry 9 2. Toward a Peaceable Economy for a Beloved Country: Berry as Agrarian, Citizen, and Patriot 43 3. Against the Church, For the Church: Berry and Christianity 77 4. Port William’s “Hard History of Love”: The Short Stories 117 5. Remembering the Names: Andy Catlett, Nathan Coulter, A World Lost, Remembering, and The Memory of Old Jack 151 6. Imagining the Practice of Peace in a Century of War: A Place on Earth, Hannah Coulter, and Jayber Crow 195 7. The “Art of Being Here”: The Poetry 237 Notes 269 Bibliography 303 Index 313 ...