{"product_id":"apples-and-ashes-coleman-hutchison-9780820342443","title":"Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eApples and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures, especially those of the United States and Britain. Thus, Coleman Hutchison argues, it has profound implications for our understanding of American literary nationalism and the relationship between literature and nationalism more broadly. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eApples and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e is organized by genre, with each chapter using a single text or a small set of texts to limn a broader aspect of Confederate literary culture. Hutchison discusses an understudied and diverse archive of literary texts including the literary criticism of Edgar Allan Poe; southern responses to \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e; the novels of Augusta Jane Evans; Confederate popular poetry; the de facto Confederate national anthem, \"Dixie\"; and several postwar southern memoirs. In addition to emphasizing the centrality of slavery to the Confederate literary imagination, the book also considers a series of novel topics: the reprinting of European novels in the Confederate South, including Charles Dickens's \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e and Victor Hugo's \u003ci\u003eLes Mis rables\u003c\/i\u003e; Confederate propaganda in Europe; and postwar Confederate emigration to Latin America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn discussing literary criticism, fiction, poetry, popular song, and memoir, \u003ci\u003eApples and Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us of Confederate literature's once-great expectations. Before their defeat and abjection--before apples turned to ashes in their mouths--many Confederates thought they were in the process of creating a nation and a national literature that would endure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Coleman Hutchison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820342440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820342443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2012","brand":"Coleman Hutchison","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44566895034623,"sku":"9780820342443","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_aca06065-bac4-4582-be36-0b8774420ba4.jpg?v=1701374957","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/apples-and-ashes-coleman-hutchison-9780820342443","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}