| Contents |
The emergence of the postwar myth -- The first reaction: the Klan as symbol -- Literature as the battleground, 1867-1880 -- the lost cause is found by national periodicals, 1870-1882 -- The lost cause triumphant: Southern literary themes, 1880-1900 -- The war refought with the pen -- The Confederate veteran and his daughters -- The feudal fief of the myth of the lost cause: the New York stage, 1885-1900 -- Winning the war in the classrooms: first in the South and later in the North -- With benefit of clergy: the ministers and the myth -- Southern postwar Romantic oratory: the role of Henry W. Grady -- Epilogue -- into the twentieth century: the lost cause myth and its consequences. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-176). |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Osterweis, Rollin G. (Rollin Gustav), 1907- Myth of the lost cause, 1865-1900. [Hamden, Conn.] Archon Books, 1973 |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Osterweis, Rollin G. (Rollin Gustav), 1907- Myth of the lost cause, 1865-1900. [Hamden, Conn.] Archon Books, 1973 |
| LCCN | 72014123 |
| ISBN | 0208013180 |
| ISBN | 9780208013187 |
