"Tell the southrons we lie here": The rhetoric of consummation in southern epitaphs and elegies of post-Civil War America

From: Southern Quarterly | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Sedore, Timothy S | Copyright information

CIVIL WAR SITES OF MOURNING offer striking contradictions and paradoxes. The monuments are at once intimate and aloof-formed of granite, limestone, bronze, or granite, yet invested with a rhetoric of life emotions. Though fixed in lifeless substance, they are dynamic in ideology, interpretation and evocation: The Virginia and Georgia courthouse monuments of the "Lost Cause" era, for example, stand in revealing contrast to the triumphant tone that is so often represented in comparable New York...

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