Background
O'Brien, Michael was born on April 13, 1948 in Plymouth, Devon, England. Son of John McCarthy and Lilian Isabella (Collicott) O'B. came to the United States, 1976.
(From the pages of forgotten journals and literary magazin...)
From the pages of forgotten journals and literary magazines Michael O'Brien assembles fourteen pieces that effectively challenge the long-prevailing notion that the mind of the Old South was superficial, unintellectual, and obsessed with race and slavery. In this book are discourses on subjects ranging from English empirical thought to neoclassical aesthetics, from the enfranchisement of women to ...
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(When first published in 1982, this collection of writings...)
When first published in 1982, this collection of writings by antebellum southerners unveiled an intellectual richness that few scholars had been willing to acknowledge. Since then the subject of the Old South's intellectual life has attracted increasing attention. From the pages of forgotten journals and literary magazines O'Brien assembles 14 pieces that effectively challenge the long-prevailing notion that the mind of the Old South was superficial, unintellectual, and obsessed with race and slavery. In this book are discourses on subjects ranging from English empirical thought to neoclassical aesthetics, from the enfranchisement of women to transcendental theology, from the works of Hawthorne and Emerson to the social system of Virginia.
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O'Brien, Michael was born on April 13, 1948 in Plymouth, Devon, England. Son of John McCarthy and Lilian Isabella (Collicott) O'B. came to the United States, 1976.
Bachelor, University Cambridge, England, 1969. Master of Arts, University Cambridge, England, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1976.
Master of Arts, Vanderbilt University, 1973.
Junior fellow, Michigan Society Fellows, Ann Arbor, 1976-1979; visiting research professor, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1980; assistant professor, U. Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1980-1982; associate professor, U. Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1982-1985; professor, U. Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1985-1987; Phillip R. Shriver professor, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio., since 1987. Visiting professor U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1985.
(From the pages of forgotten journals and literary magazin...)
( Bringing together Michael O’Brien’s pathbreaking essays...)
(When first published in 1982, this collection of writings...)
(Between the wars, the South was not only different but, a...)
Member Southern Texts Society (chair editorial board), Organisation American Historians, Southern History Association, British Association American Studies, South Carolina. History Society.
Married Patricia Caroline Mary Bacon, August 30, 1969.