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Templeton’s conclusion summarises each chapter and the key strands that run through the entire book, but also offers the beginning of an assessment of how these same ideas go on to influence the work of later, and perhaps better-known authors, such as Mark Twain, William Falkner, Tennessee Williams, and Eudora Welty. It also demonstrates the continuing power of such ideas in our contemporary political rhetoric and makes the case for continuing to think about cultural artefacts in the light of Jefferson and his philosophies.
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Richard Gray, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007), 243.
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Nathan Wolff. “Emotional Insanity, Cynical Reason, and The Gilded Age.” English Literary History 80, no. 1 (2013): 173–197.
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Mixon, Southern Writers, 89.
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Jeffrey Melton, ‘Mark Twain and the Middle Landscape in Paint and Print’, Mark Twain Journal 48 2010: 14–28.
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Arthur G. Pettit, Mark Twain and the South (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974), 60.
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Scott Michaelsen, ‘Tom Sawyer’s Capitalisms and the Destructuring of Huck Finn’, Prospects 22, (2009): 133–151.
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Pettit, Mark Twain and the South, 57.
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Theodore L. Gross, Thomas Nelson Page (New York: Twayne, 1967), 17.
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For more, see Gross, Thomas Nelson Page, 115.
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Merrill D. Peterson, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind, 363.
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Frank Lawrence Owsley, ‘The Irrepressible Conflict’, in Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand : The South and the Agrarian Tradition, ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983), 69–70.
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John Gould Fletcher, ‘Education, Past and Present’ in Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand : The South and the Agrarian Tradition, ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983), 106.
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Andrew Nelson Lytle, ‘The Hind Tit’, in Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand : The South and the Agrarian Tradition, ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983), 209.
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Richard Gray, Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 128.
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Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, The Dream of Arcady: Place and Time in Southern Literature (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 155.
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See Tiya Miles, Tales From the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery From the Civil War Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015), 31.
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Gray, Writing the South, 239.
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Anne Goodwyn Jones, ‘Gone With the Wind and Others: Popular Fiction, 1920–1950’ in The History of Southern Literature, ed. Louis D. Rubin, Jr., et al (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990), 363.
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Francis D. Cogliano, Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006), 7.
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For more, see Andrew Burstein, Democracy’s Muse: How Thomas Jefferson Became an FDR Liberal, a Reagan Republican, and a Tea Party Fanatic, All the While Being Dead (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015).
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Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, The Dream of Arcady: Place and Time in Southern Literature (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1980), 215.
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Templeton, P. (2019). Conclusion. In: The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785–1885. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04888-4_8
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