Enduring Legacy : Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Towns, W. Stuart, 1939-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Oratory > Southern States > History.
Memory > Social aspects > Southern States.
English language > Southern States > Rhetoric.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > Southern States > History and criticism.
Group identity > Southern States.
Southern States > Languages > History.
Confederate States of America > History.
Southern States > Civilization.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rhetoric, celebration, and ritual: building a collective memory in the postwar South
  • Remembering the Confederacy: ceremony in the postwar South, 1865-1920s
  • The road to secession and war: the oratorical defense of the Confederacy and the Old South
  • Creating the myths of the war: martyrs and scapegoats of the Confederacy
  • Creating the myths of Reconstruction, redemption, reconciliation, and the new and future South: the rest of the story
  • The persistence of a myth: the lost cause in the modern South.

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