Dr. Cash 3 credits

          This specialized class in the literature of the South focuses on that group of writers who came together at Vanderbilt University early in the 20th century and became a moving force in what Louis Rubin termed the Renascence in Southern Literature. They were also pivotal in the development of “the New Criticism,” a term that John Crowe Ransom first used. The Fugitives (including John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, and Robert Penn Warren as core members) published The Fugitive journal from 1922 to 1925—a publication that gained recognition throughout the country and abroad. Members of the core group above and Andrew Lytle, among others, became central to the Agrarian movement that  published I’ll Take My Stand in 1930. 

          The class will focus on the study of Fugitive poetry, I’ll take My Stand, and other major works by Tate, Lytle, Warren, and others. The course works as a follow-up to English 355: Survey of Southern Literature. Students will produce four analytical papers (750 words each) and a research article and will also give frequent in-class presentations.

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