Enduring legacy
Subtitle: rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause
By: W. Stuart Towns
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780817317522; 9780817385811
Subjects: Rhetoric; Oratory; History and criticism; Influence; English language; Speeches, addresses, etc., American; Languages; Civilization; Group identity; Memory; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rhetoric, celebration, and ritual: building a collective memory in the postwar South; title: Remembering the Confederacy: ceremony in the postwar South, 1865-1920s; title: The road to secession and war: the oratorical defense of the Confederacy and the Old South; title: Creating the myths of the war: martyrs and scapegoats of the Confederacy; title: Creating the myths of Reconstruction, redemption, reconciliation, and the new and future South: the rest of the story; title: The persistence of a myth: the lost cause in the modern South.