Thomas H. Landess is associate editor of The Southern Partisan, a monthly journal of opinion and history, published at Columbia, South Carolina. Between 1958 and 1983, Dr. Landess was a professor at Converse College, Furman College, and the University of Dallas, serving also as academic dean at the latter. His bachelor’s and master’s degrees are from Vanderbilt, his doctorate from South Carolina. He is the author or editor of three books and dozens of scholarly articles on major Southern writers; has seen his poetry published in several literary journals; served as a speechwriter for corporate chief executives; and is board chairman of the Society for the Study of Traditional Culture. Tom Landess delivered this paper at Hillsdale in March 1984 for a seminar in the Center for Constructive Alternatives on the overall topic, “Language Under Siege.” Other speakers at the seminar included critics John Simon and John Leonard, Lewis Lapham of Harper’s, Hugh Kenner of Johns Hopkins, R.V. Cassill of Brown, and Drs. Benjamin Alexander and Daniel Sundahl of Hillsdale College’s own English department.
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