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Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan
Beagle, Donald Robert, Bryan Albin Giemza
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Description for Poet of the Lost Cause: A Life of Father Ryan
Hardcover. Num Pages: 342 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 630.
Father Abram J. Ryan (1838¬-1886) held dual roles in the post¬-Civil War era: he was at once an architect of ascendant Lost Cause ideology and one of its leading icons. Among Southern sympathizers after the war, his celebrity placed him in a pantheon of Confederate figures that included Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Lee's surrender at Appomattox catapulted the then twenty-seven-year-old Catholic chaplain to regional and finally national fame. His verses, which investigated faith and propagated a romanticized view of the Southern cause, went through forty-seven editions by the 1930s, and Ryan himself became a near-mythical figure: the celebrated ... Read more
Father Abram J. Ryan (1838¬-1886) held dual roles in the post¬-Civil War era: he was at once an architect of ascendant Lost Cause ideology and one of its leading icons. Among Southern sympathizers after the war, his celebrity placed him in a pantheon of Confederate figures that included Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Lee's surrender at Appomattox catapulted the then twenty-seven-year-old Catholic chaplain to regional and finally national fame. His verses, which investigated faith and propagated a romanticized view of the Southern cause, went through forty-seven editions by the 1930s, and Ryan himself became a near-mythical figure: the celebrated ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781572336063
SKU
V9781572336063
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