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Mind and the American Civil War : A Meditation On Lost Causes Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
author
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Simpson, Lewis P.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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080711555X
print isbn13
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9780807115558
ebook isbn13
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9780585285474
language
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English
subject
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence, Nationalism--United States--History, Slavery--United States.
publication date
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1989
lcc
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E468.9.S57 1989eb
ddc
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973.7
subject
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence, Nationalism--United States--History, Slavery--United States.
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Mind and the American Civil War
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The Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History Louisiana State University
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Mind and the American Civil War
A Meditation on Lost Causes
Lewis P. Simpson
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Copyright 1989 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Designer: Albert Crochet Typeface: Linotron Trump Mediaeval Typesetter: G&S Typesetters, Inc. Printer: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Binder: John H. Dekker & Sons, Inc.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Simpson, Lewis P. Mind and the American Civil War: a meditation on lost causes / Lewis P. Simpson. p. cm. (The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history) Includes index. ISBN 0-8071-1555-x (alk. paper) 1. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Influence. 2. NationalismUnited StatesHistory. 3. SlaveryUnited States. I. Title. II. Series. E468.9.s57 1989 973.7dc19 89-30159 CIP
"Slavery and the Cultural Imperialism of New England" appeared in the Southern Review, n.s., XXV (Winter, 1986).
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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For Charles and Sarah East Fabian and Almena Gudas Darwin and Leora Shrell Otis Wheeler and, in affectionate memory, Doris Wheeler
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The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.
The brain is deeper than the sea, For, hold them, blue to blue, The one the other will absorb, As sponges, buckets do.
The brain is just the weight of God, For, lift them, pound for pound, And they will differ, if they do. As syllable from sound.
EMILY DICKINSON (ca. 1862: the year of the Seven Days' Battles, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg)
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Contents
Preface
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I Land, Slaves, and Mind: The High Culture of the Jeffersonian South
1
II Slavery and the Cultural Imperialism of New England
33
III The South and the Lost Cause of New England
70
Epilogue: Why Quentin Compson Went to Harvard
96
Index
107
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Preface
Outside of necessary revisions, and some slight amplification, this volume presents the 1988 Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History as they were read in the lecture room. I count the invitation from the distinguished Department of History of Louisiana State University to give the Fleming Lectures as a singular honor. Not only did the invitation come to a member of a literary rather than a history faculty, but it came for the first time to a member of the LSU faculty. Whatever the meaning of these facts may be, it is insignificant compared to the honor of being asked to join the brilliant company of Fleming Lecturers, who have, from the inauguration of the series in 1937 by Charles W. Ramsdell, explored the multifaceted aspects of the history of the American South in its relation to our national history. My own small contribution to this lengthy dialogue represents a brief effort to augment, and in a sense to sum up, my inquiries into a subject I have more or less consistently pursued in the study of American literary and cultural history: the complex, fateful, even tragic connection between the South and New England.
Even though it is a small book, Mind and the American Civil War reflects an indebtedness to lives and minds far too numerous for specification. Let me simply express my general gratitude to the LSU Department of History and my particular gratitude to those LSU colleagues who were most immediately involved in the circumstances that brought the work into being. They include John L. Loos, Alumni Professor and chairman, emeritus, of the Department of His-
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tory; William J. Cooper, Jr., professor of history and until recently dean of the Graduate School; and Charles W. Royster, T. Harry Williams Professor of History. I must further thank other members of the history faculty who have had a helpful interest in my work, including Burl L. Noggle, Alumni Professor of History, and Professors Anne Loveland and Daniel C. Littlefield. I am constantly aware, I must add, of the career and thought of the late T. Harry Williams in shaping my sense of the drama of the American civil conflict of the 1860s and its meaning as one of the crucial wars of modern history. Save for John R. May, the present chairman of the Department of English, I will not, for lack of space, attempt to single out my many helpful colleagues in the Department of English. Beyond the campus faculty, two names must be mentioned. Let me thank Eugene Genovese, who, while he was serving as Mellon Professor at Tulane University in 1986, provided the impetus for the initial development of the first part of
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