Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South

by Michael T. Bernath

Book Overview

During the Civil War, some Confederates sought to prove the distinctiveness of the southern people and to legitimate their desire for a separate national existence through the creation of a uniquely southern literature and culture. Michael Bernath follows the activities of a group of southern writers, thinkers, editors, publishers, educators, and ministers--whom he labels Confederate cultural nationalists--in order to trace the rise and fall of a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 146960728X
• ISBN13: 9781469607283
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"