Confederate Minds : The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South /
During the Civil War, some Confederates sought to prove the distinctiveness of the Southern people and to legitimate their desire for a separate national existence through the creation of a uniquely Southern literature and culture. Michael Bernath follows the activities of a group of Southern writer...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An intellectual call to arms
- The Confederate critique of northern culture
- The birth of Confederate literature
- The campaign for Confederate educational independence
- The high-water mark
- Searching for a Confederate "literature of power"
- Are we a highly civilized people?
- Conclusion: independent in nothing, neutral in everything.