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AMERICAN STUDIES IN SCANDINAVIA, vol.46, no.2, pp.17-36, 2014 (AHCI)
Walter Sullivan (1924-2006), a Nashville, Tennessee native who spent most of his academic and professional life at Vanderbilt University, is generally considered by critics as a literary descendent of the first two generations of Fugitive-Agrarians and the Southern Renaissance to which they belong. This essay seeks to position Sullivan's second, largely forgotten novel, The Long, Long Love as part of the post-agrarian, post-Renaissance, postmodern, and post-southern American intellectual reevaluation of the South that questions tradition through an assertion of "pro-New South, pro urban, and pro-capitalist" values and thoroughly reconsiders Civil War "truths," myths, history, and memory.