Macaria, Or, Altars of Sacrifice
Author : Augusta Jane Evans
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Confederate States of America
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Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Confederate States of America
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Author : Michael T. Bernath
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2010-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0807895652
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 cultural movement dedicated to liberating the South from its longtime dependence on Northern books, periodicals, and teachers. By analyzing the motives driving the struggle for Confederate intellectual independence, by charting its wartime accomplishments, and by assessing its failures, Bernath makes provocative arguments about the nature of Confederate nationalism, life within the Confederacy, and the perception of southern cultural distinctiveness.
Author : Amy Boesky
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820318325
A cultural history of utopian writing in early modern England, Founding Fictions traces the development of the genre from the publication of Thomas More's Utopia (1516) through Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688). Amy Boesky sees utopian literature rising alongside new social institutions that helped shape the modern English nation. While utopian fiction explicitly advocates a reorganization of human activity, which appears liberal or progressive, utopias represent reform in self-critical or qualitative ways. Early modern utopias, Boesky demonstrates, are less blueprints for reform than they are challenges to the very possibility of improvement. After an initial discussion of More's Utopia, Boesky devotes subsequent chapters to Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, the Civil War Utopias of Gabriel Plattes, Samuel Gott, and Gerrard Winstanley, Margaret Cavendish's Blazing-world, and Henry Neville's Isle of Pines. Relating the English public school to More's Utopia, and early modern laboratories to Bacon's New Atlantis, Boesky shows how utopists explored the formation of cultural identity through new institutional models. Utopias of the 1640s and 1650s are read against new emphasis on work as the panacea for social ills; Cavendish's Blazing-world is seen as reproducing and reassessing restoration centers of authority in the court and theater; and finally, Neville's Isle of Pines and Behn's Oroonoko are read as interrogating the authorities of the English colony. Despite widely divergent backgrounds, says Boesky, these utopists shared a sense that national identity was shaped less by individuals than by institutions, which they praise for producing trained and trainable citizens instilled with the values of the modern state: obedience, discipline, and order. While the utopia tells its story partly to justify the goals of colonialism and to enforce differences in class, gender, and race, it also tells a concurrent and less stable story that criticizes these ventures and exposes their limitations.
Author : William Trowbridge Merrifield Forbes
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Page : 776 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Beetles
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Page : 858 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Entomology
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Page : 502 pages
File Size : 12,70 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Entomology
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Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826208651
Stories were collective, as in the case of the antebellum proslavery argument or Confederate discourses about women. Sometimes they were personal, as in the private writings of figures such as Lizzie Neblett, Mary Chesnut, Thornton Stringfellow, or James Henry Hammond. These men and women regularly employed their pens to create coherence and order amid the tangled circumstances of their particular lives and within a context of social prescriptions and expectations.
Author : Gabriel Plattes
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Fiction
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'A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria' is a work of utopian fiction. The text is only fifteen pages long, but it addresses various issues such as economic development, taxation, and education. The story is a dialogue and follows the Utopia of Thomas More and the New Atlantis of Francis Bacon.
Author : William Barnes
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Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Lepidoptera
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Author : Augusta Jane Evans
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Confederate States of America
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