Enduring legacy [electronic resource] : rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause / W. Stuart Towns.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 190 p. )ISBN:- 9780817385811
- 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
- 973.7/13 23
- F209 .T69 2012
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.
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