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Enduring legacy

Towns, W. Stuart, 1939-

Enduring legacy rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause / [electronic resource] : W. Stuart Towns. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (xvii, 190 p. ) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163, [165]-182) and index.

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.

9780817385811


Oratory--History.--Southern States
Memory--Social aspects--Southern States.
English language--Rhetoric.--Southern States
Speeches, addresses, etc., American--History and criticism.--Southern States
Group identity--Southern States.


Southern States--Languages--History.
Confederate States of America--History.
Southern States--Civilization.
United States--History--Influence.--Civil War, 1861-1865


Electronic books.

F209 / .T69 2012

973.7/13