Normans and Saxons: southern race mythology and the intellectual history of the American Civil War
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1. Verfasser: Watson, Ritchie Devon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Southern literary studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 opinion was similarly divided nearly three-and-a-half years later after abolitionist John Brown's raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, with northerners crowning John Brown as a martyr to the cause of freedom as southerners excoriated him as a consciousness fanatic. These events opened
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