LEADER 04571nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910789966503321 005 20230126205036.0 010 $a1-280-49164-7 010 $a9786613586872 010 $a0-8203-4365-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160118 035 $a(OCoLC)781634984 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10539273 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000687011 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11421639 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000687011 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10734918 035 $a(PQKB)11486341 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3039085 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse15928 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4977944 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3039085 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10539273 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4977944 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358687 035 $a(OCoLC)817077938 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160118 100 $a20110927d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aApples and ashes$b[electronic resource] $eliterature, nationalism, and the Confederate States of America /$fColeman Hutchison 210 $aAthens $cUniversity of Georgia Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 225 1 $aThe new Southern studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8203-3731-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGreat 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. 330 $aApples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures, especially those of the United States and Britain. Thus, Coleman Hutchison argues, it has profound implications for our understanding of American literary nationalism and the relationship between literature and nationalism more broadly.Apples and Ashes is organized by genre, with each chapter using a single text or a small set of texts to limn a broader aspect of Confederate literary culture. Hutchison discusses an understudied and diverse archive of literary texts including the literary criticism of Edgar Allan Poe; southern responses to Uncle Tom's Cabin; the novels of Augusta Jane Evans; Confederate popular poetry; the de facto Confederate national anthem, "Dixie"; and several postwar southern memoirs. In addition to emphasizing the centrality of slavery to the Confederate literary imagination, the book also considers a series of novel topics: the reprinting of European novels in the Confederate South, including Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Victor Hugo's Les Mise?rables; Confederate propaganda in Europe; and postwar Confederate emigration to Latin America.In discussing literary criticism, fiction, poetry, popular song, and memoir, Apples and Ashes reminds us of Confederate literature's once-great expectations. Before their defeat and abjection-before apples turned to ashes in their mouths-many Confederates thought they were in the process of creating a nation and a national literature that would endure. 410 0$aNew southern studies. 606 $aAmerican literature$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRegionalism$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aGroup identity$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aConfederate States of America$xIntellectual life 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aRegionalism$xHistory 615 0$aGroup identity$xHistory 676 $a810.9/35875 700 $aHutchison$b Coleman$f1977-$01505916 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789966503321 996 $aApples and ashes$93735884 997 $aUNINA