Enduring legacy rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause /

Enduring legacy rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause /

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Main Author: Towns, W. Stuart, 1939-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Group identity > Southern States.
Speeches, addresses, etc., American > Southern States > History and criticism.
English language > Southern States > Rhetoric.
Memory > Social aspects > Southern States.
Oratory > Southern States > History.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence.
Southern States > Civilization.
Confederate States of America > History.
Southern States > Languages > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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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