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A Late Encounter with the Civil War (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures)
Michael Kreyling
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Paperback. Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States, revealing as much about our sense of place in the present as our conception of the past. These essays explore the mechanisms by which each era has staged, written, and thought about the meaning of the Civil War. Series: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 181.
In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States. When significant anniversaries arrive in the histories of groups such as families, businesses or nations, their members set aside time to formally remember their shared past. This phenomenon - this social or collective memory - reveals as much about a group’s sense of place in the present as it does about the events of the past. So it is with the Civil War.
As a nation, we have formally remembered ... Read more
In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States. When significant anniversaries arrive in the histories of groups such as families, businesses or nations, their members set aside time to formally remember their shared past. This phenomenon - this social or collective memory - reveals as much about a group’s sense of place in the present as it does about the events of the past. So it is with the Civil War.
As a nation, we have formally remembered ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820346571
SKU
V9780820346571
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About Michael Kreyling
Michael Kreyling is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The South That Wasn’t There and Inventing Southern Literature, for which he received the Eudora Welty Prize.
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