Author: William Gilmore Simms
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Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 606

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Author: William Gilmore Simms
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Author: William Peterfield Trent
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Author: Keen Butterworth
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Robert Yusef Rabiee
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820358371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture. Against Cold War–era studies of U.S. culture that argued, following political scientist Louis Hartz’s “liberal consensus” model, that the United States emerged from the Revolutionary era free from Europe’s feudal institutions and uninterested in the production of its medieval culture productions, Robert Yusef Rabiee contends that feudal law and medieval literature were structural components of the American cultural imaginary in the nineteenth century. The racial, gender, and class formations that emerged in the first era of U.S. nation building were deeply indebted to medieval social, political, and religious thought—an observation that challenges the liberal consensus model and allows us to better grasp how American social roles developed. Far from casting off feudal tradition, the early United States folded feudalism into its emerging liberal order, creating a knotted system of values and practices that continue to structure the American experience. Sometimes, the feudal residuum contradicted the liberal values of the Unites States. Other times, the feudal residuum bolstered those values, revealing deep sympathies between so-called “modern” and “premodern” political thought. Medieval America thus aims to reorient our discussions about American cultural and political development in terms of the long arc of European history.

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Languages : en
Pages : 532

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Author: David W. Newton
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Author: John Caldwell Guilds
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610753814
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Encompasses ante-colonial America, the English colonies, the Revolutionary War, and the rampaging frontier and constitutes a unique national literary treasure. Guilds's Simms restores Simms to his proper place as a major figure in American letters and reintroduces the man and the author to the reading public.

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Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Author: Angela Esco Elder
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469667754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers. They recorded their experiences in diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and pension applications. In Love and Duty, Angela Esco Elder draws on these materials—as well as songs, literary works, and material objects like mourning gowns—to explore white Confederate widows' stories, examining the records of their courtships, marriages, loves, and losses to understand their complicated relationship with the Confederate state. Elder shows how, in losing their husbands, many women acquired significant cultural capital, which positioned them as unlikely actors to gain political influence. Confederate officialdom championed a particular image of white widowhood—the young wife who selflessly transferred her monogamous love from her dead husband to the deathless cause for which he'd fought. But a closer look reveals that these women spent their new cultural capital with great shrewdness and variety. Not only were they aware of the social status gained in widowhood; they also used that status on their own terms, turning mourning into a highly politicized act amid the battle to establish the Confederacy's legitimacy. Death forced all Confederate widows to reconstruct their lives, but only some would choose to play a role in reconstructing the nation.