Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America

by Coleman Hutchison

Book Overview

Apples 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820342440
• ISBN13: 9780820342443
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"