Apples and Ashes Literature, Nationalism and the Confederate States of America

Name: Apples and Ashes Literature, Nationalism and the Confederate States of America
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ISBN: 9780820342443

ISBN-10: 0820342440

ISBN-13: 9780820342443

Edition: 2012

Authors: Coleman Hutchison, Richï¿½ Richardson

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Apples and Ashesoffers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures, especially those of the United States and Britain. Thus, Coleman Hutchison argues, it has profound implications for our understanding of American literary nationalism and the relationship between literature and nationalism more broadly.Apples and Ashesis organized by genre, with each chapter using a single text or a small set of texts to limn a broader aspect of Confederate literary culture.…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 3/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



List of Figures


Introduction. Great Expectations: The Imaginative Literature of the Confederate States of America



A History of the Future: Southern Literary Nationalism before the Confederacy



A New Experiment in the Art of Book-Making: Engendering the Confederate National Novel



Southern Amaranths: Popularity, Occasion, and Media in a Confederate Poetics of Place



The Music of Mars: Confederate Song, North and South



In Dreamland: The Confederate Memoir at Home and Abroad


Acknowledgments


Notes


Works Cited


Index