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Enduring legacy : rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause
- Title
- Enduring legacy : rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause / W. Stuart Towns.
- Author
- Towns, W. Stuart, 1939-
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 190 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Memory > Social aspects > Southern States
- Group identity > Southern States
- Southern States > Civilization
- Oratory > Southern States > History
- Southern States > Languages > History
- Speeches, addresses, etc., American > Southern States > History and criticism
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence
- English language > Southern States > Rhetoric
- Confederate States of America > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163, [165]-182) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-306
- ISBN
- 9780817317522 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
- 081731752X (trade cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817385811 (electronic)
- 0817385819 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2011036633
- OCLC
- 730412371
- Author
- Towns, W. Stuart, 1939-
- Title
- Enduring legacy : rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause / W. Stuart Towns.
- Imprint
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-163, [165]-182) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-306