Research Catalog

Title

The lost lectures of C. Vann Woodward / edited by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner ; foreword by Edward L. Ayers.

Author

Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ring, Natalie J.
• Gardner, Sarah E.
• Ayers, Edward L., 1953-

Description

x, 276 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"It is not hyperbole to state that C. Vann Woodward is the most significant historian of the post-Reconstruction South. His accomplishments are staggeringly impressive: he wrote nine books; edited six volumes; won the Bancroft and Pulitzer Prizes; penned hundreds of book reviews, opinion pieces, and scholarly essays; served as President of the Southern Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Historical Association; and gained recognition as a national and international public intellectual. What is less known about Woodward is his scholarly interest in the history of antebellum southern nonconformists and dissenters aside from Mary Chestnut, the immediate consequences of emancipation, and the political and social agenda of assorted historical factions during Reconstruction. The Lost Lectures of C. Vann Woodward presents for the first time in print two sets of lectures that Woodward delivered at mid-century, LSU's Fleming Lectures in 1951 and Cornell's Messenger Lectures in 1964. Both sets reflect Woodward's life-long interest in exploring the contours and limits of southern liberalism in key moments of great change in the South. The analysis by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner draws on correspondence and Woodward's personal notes to chronicle his failed attempts to finish a much-awaited comprehensive history of Reconstruction, which he saw as the natural outgrowth of the Messenger Lectures. The letdown involving the latter project is all the more significant given that he had come to imagine the book as a companion to the Origins of the New South, one of the most lasting pieces of scholarship in the field. An original introduction by Ring and Gardner will precede the reprinted lectures focusing on the antebellum and Reconstruction periods, situating them within the context of historiographical debates as well as C. Vann Woodward's correspondence, notes on his projected book, published works, and unpublished essays. The lectures reprinted in this collection, then, offer readers new perspectives on the greatest authority on the history of the late nineteenth and twentieth-century South"--

Subjects

• Dissenters
• Lectures
• History
• 1865-1877
• United States
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
• Southern States > History
• Dissenters > Southern States > History

Genre/Form

• History.
• Lectures.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Fleming Lectures at Louisiana State University: Southern Dissenters in Exile (1951). The Men of the Thirties ; The Men of the Fifties ; The Way of the Exile -- The Process of Alienation -- The Year of Decision -- Messenger Lectures at Cornell University: The First Reconstruction in the Light of the Second (1964). The Fear of Freedom ; The Paradox of Loyalty ; The Conservatism of Northern Radicals ; Radicalism for Conservative Southerners ; Did the North Really Mean It? -- Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School: Slavery to Freedom: An American Failure (1969). The Problem of Failure in American History.

Call Number

JFE 21-700

ISBN

• 9780190863951
• 0190863951
• 9780190863975 (canceled/invalid)
• 9780190863968 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020013093

OCLC

1145908872

Author

Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999, author.

Title

The lost lectures of C. Vann Woodward / edited by Natalie J. Ring and Sarah E. Gardner ; foreword by Edward L. Ayers.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1865-1877

Added Author

Ring, Natalie J., editor.

Gardner, Sarah E., editor.

Ayers, Edward L., 1953- writer of foreword.

Other Form:

Online version: The lost lectures of C. Vann Woodward New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. 9780190863975 (DLC) 2020013094

Research Call Number

JFE 21-700