Monuments to the Lost Cause by Cynthia Mills, Pamela H. Simps... - 9781621904441

Monuments to the Lost CauseWomen, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory\nAuthor(s): Cynthia Mills, Pamela H. Simpson, Karen L. Cox\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Tennessee Press, United States\nImprint: University of Tennessee Press\nISBN-13: 9781621904441, 978-1621904441\nSynopsis\nThis richly illustrated collection of essays, reissued in paperback with a new foreword by Karen L. Cox, examines Confederate memorials from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain and explores how each monument, with its associated public rituals, testifies to the romanticized narrative of the American Civil War known as the Lost Cause. Several of the fourteen essays highlight the creative leading role played by women's groups in memorialization, while others explore the alternative ways in which people outside white southern culture wrote their very different histories on the southern landscape. The authors - who include Richard Guy Wilson, Catherine W. Bishir, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and Wil.