TY - BOOK AU - Towns,W.Stuart ED - Project Muse. TI - Enduring legacy: rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause SN - 9780817385811 AV - F209 .T69 2012 U1 - 973.7/13 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Oratory KW - Southern States KW - History KW - Memory KW - Social aspects KW - English language KW - Rhetoric KW - Speeches, addresses, etc., American KW - History and criticism KW - Group identity KW - Languages KW - Confederate States of America KW - Civilization KW - United States KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Influence KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817385811/ ER -