Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory

by Cynthia Mills

Book Overview

This richly illustrated collection of fourteen essays examines the ways in which Confederate memorials from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain and the public rituals surrounding them testify to the tenets of the Lost Cause, a romanticized narrative of the war. Several 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572332727
• ISBN13: 9781572332720
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 10.5"