Land! by John Crowe Ransom, Jason Peters - 9780268101947

Name: Land! by John Crowe Ransom, Jason Peters - 9780268101947
Brand: University of Notre Dame Press

University of Notre Dame Press

Land!The Case for an Agrarian Economy\nAuthor(s): John Crowe Ransom, Jason Peters\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268101947, 978-0268101947\nSynopsis\nPreviously unpublished, Land! unites John Crowe Ransom's poetic sensibilities with his argument for an agrarian economy as an alternative to capitalism.\n\nIn Land!, the accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom, leading member of the Southern Agrarian movement, examines economics at the height of the Great Depression. Long thought to have been burned by its author after he failed to find a publisher, Land! is politically charged with Ransom's aesthetic beliefs about literature and his agrarian interpretation of economics.\n\nAfter the publication of the Southern Agrarian movement's manifesto I'll Take My Stand in 1930, Ransom, who provided the book's Statement of Principles in addition to its lead essay, became convinced that the .