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Contents List of Abbreviations ix ONE 1 The South as Arcady: Beginnings of a Mode TWO 18 Sidney Lanier: The Scythe of Time, The Trowel of Trade THREE 36 Thomas Nelson Page: The Plantation asArcady FOUR 61 Joel Chandler Harris: Speculating on the Past FIVE 86 Charles Chesnutt's Southern World: Portraits of a Bad Dream SIX 105 Jean Toomer's Cane: The Pastoral Return SEVEN 128 Agrarian Quarrel, Agrarian Question: What Shall This Land Produce? EIGHT 153 Faulkner's Sons of the Fathers: How to Inherit the Past NINE 181 To See Things in Their Time: The Act of Focusing in Eudora Welty's Fiction TEN 207 The South Beyond Arcady Bibliography 219 Index 225 This page intentionally left blank ...

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