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Encountering Southern Ruins Encountering Southern Ruins
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Ruin as Metaphor: Three Approaches Ruin as Metaphor: Three Approaches
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The Guilty South The Guilty South
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The End of the South The End of the South
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The South Reborn The South Reborn
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The Ruins of History The Ruins of History
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4 The Burnt District: Making Sense of Ruins in the Postwar South
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Published:September 2015
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Abstract
This chapter examines how northerners turned to ruins—real and metaphorical—in an attempt to make sense of the South after the Civil War. Depictions and discussion of the war-torn southern landscape saturated northern print and visual culture. Southern ruins appeared in newspaper articles, speeches, sermons, travel narratives, photographs, and illustrations. Although physical ruins were largely confined to the South, representations of ruins did important work in the cultural spaces of the North. This chapter explores the intellectual and cultural terrain of the early post-Civil War era by focusing on popular conversations about southern ruination. Focusing on the thirteen months between the burning of Atlanta in November 1864 and the convening of the Thirty-Ninth Congress in December 1865, it considers the ways that images and discussion of ruination reflected larger notions about the North, the South, and the legacies of the Civil War.
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