Normans and Saxons : southern race mythology and the intellectual history of the American Civil War /
When Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina savagely caned Senator Charles Sumner Massachusetts on the floor of the U.S. Senate on May 21, 1856, southerners viewed the attack as a triumphant affirmation of southern chivalry, northerners as a confirmation of southern barbarity. Public opinio...
| Основен автор: | Watson, Ritchie Devon, Jr., 1943- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
℗♭2008.
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| Серия: |
Southern literary studies.
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Normans and Saxons. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: The Brooks-Sumner Caning Incident: Slavery, Honor, and the American Cultural Divide; 1. Race Mythology, Science, and Southern Nationalism; 2. Ivanhoe, Race Myth, and the Walter Scott Cultural Syndrome; 3. A Slaveholding Race: Mythology and Southern Polemics; 4. Race Mythology and Antebellum Fiction; 5. A Universal Yankee Nation: Northern Racial Mythmaking; 6. A Proud, High-Toned People Repudiate the Scum of the North; 7. Northern Vandals versus Southern Ruffians; 8. Poetry Fights the Civil War.