Enduring legacy : rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause / / W. Stuart Towns.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 190 p. |
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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.