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Inventing Stonewall Jackson : a Civil War hero in history and memory / Wallace Hettle.
Van Pelt Library E467.1.J15 H57 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hettle, Wallace, 1962-
- Series:
- Conflicting worlds: new dimensions of the American Civil War.
- Conflicting worlds: new dimensions of the American Civil War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863.
- Jackson, Stonewall.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography.
- United States.
- History.
- Historiography.
- Generals--United States--Biography.
- Generals.
- Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 200 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Hettle (history, U. of Northern Iowa) explains his novel approach, which consists of examining what was written about Jackson immediately following the Civil War, and examining the genesis of those writings--the context of the expressed opinions and the authors' biases and particular points of view. He has honed the scope to produce a slim book with plenty of purposeful omissions, including dull or redundant speeches as well as any attempt to analyze biographies produced in recent years. The aim of the study is to shed light on the man, the myth, and the processes of myth-creation through a close look at the efforts of Jackson's early biographers. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Confederate enigma : Stonewall Jackson's image during the Civil War
- The minister and the martyr : Robert Lewis Dabney and Stonewall Jackson biography
- A romantic's Civil War : John Esten Cooke, Stonewall Jackson, and the ideal of individual "genius"
- Domesticating a Confederate hero : Mary Anna Jackson's story of Stonewall Jackson
- Soldiers' stories : Jackson, memoirs, and the lost cause
- Mary Johnston and Stonewall Jackson : a Virginia suffragist and the politics of historical fiction
- Symbol of the South : Allen Tate, Stonewall Jackson, and the lost cause
- Of gods and generals.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-191) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780807137819
- 0807137812
- OCLC:
- 671491707
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