Romance of Reunion Northerners and the South, 1865-1900

Name: Romance of Reunion Northerners and the South, 1865-1900
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ISBN: 9780807846858

ISBN-10: 0807846856

ISBN-13: 9780807846858

Edition: 1997

Authors: Nina Silber

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The reconciliation of North and South following the Civil War depended as much on cultural imagination as on the politics of Reconstruction. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Nina Silber documents the transformation from hostile sectionalism to sentimental reunion rhetoric. Northern culture created a notion of reconciliation that romanticized and feminized southern society. In tourist accounts, novels, minstrel shows, and popular magazines, northerners contributed to a mythic and nostalgic picture of the South that served to counter their anxieties regarding the breakdown of class and gender roles in Gilded Age America. Indeed, for many Yankees, the ultimate symbol of the reunion process,…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/8/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.990

Nina Silber is professor of history at Boston University. She is author or editor of five other books, including The Romance of Reunion: Northerners and the South, 1865-1900 (from the University of North Carolina Press).



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Intemperate Men, Spiteful Women, and Jefferson Davis



A Reconstruction of the Heart



The Culture of Conciliation



Minstrels and Mountaineers



New Patriotism and New Men in the New South


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index