Read I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

John Andrew Rice

4.9/5 (15846 ratings)

Description:John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first-person historical account of race and class relations during a critical period not only during the days of Rice s youth, but at the dawn of the civil rights movement. I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century begins with Rice s childhood on a South Carolina plantation during the post-Reconstruction era. Later Rice moved to Great Britain when he won a Rhodes scholarship, then to the University of Nebraska to accept a professorship. In 1933 he founded Black Mountain College, a legendary progressive college in North Carolina that uniquely combined creative arts, liberal education, self-government, and a work program. Rice s observations of social and working conditions in the Jim Crow South, his chronicle of his own fading southern aristocratic family, including its famous politicians, and his acerbic portraits of education bureaucrats are memorable and make this book a resource for scholars and a pleasure for lay readers. Historical facts are leavened with wit and insight; black-white relations are recounted with relentless and unsentimental discernment. Rice combines a sociologist s eye with a dramatist s flair in a unique voice. This Southern Classics edition includes a new introduction by Mark Bauerlein and an afterword by Rice s grandson William Craig Rice, exposing a new generation of readers to John Andrew Rice s incisive commentaries on the American South before the 1960s and to the work of a powerful prose stylist."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century. To get started finding I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 374

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press

Release: 2014

ISBN: 1322021031

Description: John Andrew Rice's autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first-person historical account of race and class relations during a critical period not only during the days of Rice s youth, but at the dawn of the civil rights movement. I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century begins with Rice s childhood on a South Carolina plantation during the post-Reconstruction era. Later Rice moved to Great Britain when he won a Rhodes scholarship, then to the University of Nebraska to accept a professorship. In 1933 he founded Black Mountain College, a legendary progressive college in North Carolina that uniquely combined creative arts, liberal education, self-government, and a work program. Rice s observations of social and working conditions in the Jim Crow South, his chronicle of his own fading southern aristocratic family, including its famous politicians, and his acerbic portraits of education bureaucrats are memorable and make this book a resource for scholars and a pleasure for lay readers. Historical facts are leavened with wit and insight; black-white relations are recounted with relentless and unsentimental discernment. Rice combines a sociologist s eye with a dramatist s flair in a unique voice. This Southern Classics edition includes a new introduction by Mark Bauerlein and an afterword by Rice s grandson William Craig Rice, exposing a new generation of readers to John Andrew Rice s incisive commentaries on the American South before the 1960s and to the work of a powerful prose stylist."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century. To get started finding I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

More Books

Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College

Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College

MatchUp

MatchUp

Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology

Where We Live: Las Vegas Shooting Benefit Anthology

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories My Mother Never Told Me

Flesh and the Word: An Anthology of Erotic Writing

Flesh and the Word: An Anthology of Erotic Writing

Local Color

Local Color

Small Boy in a Female College: Life & Learning in the Old South 1894 Part I Only

Small Boy in a Female College: Life & Learning in the Old South 1894 Part I Only

The Old Testament in the Life of Today

The Old Testament in the Life of Today

Dark Horse Presents #29 May 1989 Homicide Pressed for Time Bob the Alien Duckman

Dark Horse Presents #29 May 1989 Homicide Pressed for Time Bob the Alien Duckman