Table of Contents
Preface ix
1 Memory and the Continuum of Time; Russell Kirk's Life 1
2 A Reminder and a Challenge: The Conservative Mind 30
3 Virtue and the Historical Consciousness: Kirk's Writings on History 57
4 For Virtue and Wisdom: Kirk on Education 81
5 Laws Written and Unwritten: Kirk on the Roots of American Justice 96
6 Horror and Redemption: Kirk's Short Stories and Lord of the Hollow Dark 109
7 Novels Gothic to Baroque: Old House of Year and A Creature of the Twilight 136
8 To Rouse and Fortify the Living: Kirk as a Critic of Literature 151
9 Toward a Tolerable Social Order: Kirk's Social Criticism 173
10 Two Cheers for the Market Economy: Kirk on "the Dismal Science" 201
11 Kirk's Significance and Influence 214
Selected Bibliography 221
Sources Consulted 229
Index 237
About the Author 249