Historical context Flashcards
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The Civil War
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- 1861-1865
- Southern states wanted independence from the north.
- South claimed their way of life was being threatened- war more commonly seen as conflict over slavery.
- Northern president Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves during the war.
- following Civil War, South thrived on regional rather than national patriotism and romantic appeal of the past (the lost way of life)
- romanticising continued through ‘Gone with the Wind’, and a new Southern literature ‘The Mississippi school’- focused on the past.
- greed and treachery described as part of Southern character in novels of William Faulkner
