Monuments To The Lost Cause - Women, Art, And The Landscapes Of Southern Memory (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This richly illustrated collection of essays, reissued in paperback with a new foreword by Karen L. Cox, examines Confederate memorials from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain and explores how each monument, with its associated public rituals, testifies to the romanticized narrative of the American Civil War known as the Lost Cause. Several of the fourteen essays highlight the creative leading role played by women's groups in memorialization, while others explore the alternative ways in which people outside white southern culture wrote their very different histories on the southern landscape. The authors - who include Richard Guy Wilson, Catherine W. Bishir, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and William M.S. Ramussen - trace the origins, objectives, and changing consequences of Confederate monuments over time and the dynamics of individuals and organizations that sponsored them. Thus these essays extend the growing literature on the rhetoric of the Lost Cause by shifting the focus to the realm of the visual. They are especially relevant in the present day when Confederate symbols and monuments continue to play a central role in a public - and often emotionally charged - debate about how the South's past should be remembered.

General

Imprint:	University of Tennessee Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2019
Authors:	Cynthia Mills
Contributors:	Pamela H Simpson
Foreword by:	Karen L Cox
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	277
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-62190-444-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900 Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
LSN:	1-62190-444-X
Barcode:	9781621904441

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