UID:
almafu_9960117275502883
Format:
1 online resource (xxiii, 357 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-43028-6
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1-316-43525-3
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1-316-27196-X
Content:
This book is the first omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest conflict in US history. A History of American Civil War Literature examines the way in which the war has been remembered and rewritten over time in prose, poems, and other narratives. This history incorporates new directions in Civil War historiography and cultural studies while giving equal attention to writings from both northern and southern states. It redresses the traditional neglect of southern literary cultures by moving between the North and the South, thus finding a balance between Union and Confederate texts. Written by leading scholars in the field, this book works to redefine the boundaries of American Civil War literature while posing a fundamental question: why does this 150-year-old conflict continue to capture the American imagination?
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Dec 2015).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Contexts -- 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe and the "Book That Made This Great War" -- Notes -- 2 The American Book Trade and the Civil War -- Notes -- 3 The Transatlantic History of Civil War Literature -- Notes -- 4 The "American Renaissance" after the American Civil War -- Notes -- 5 The Realists' Civil War -- Notes -- Part II Genres -- 6 Dépôt Culture: The Civil War and Periodical Fiction -- Notes -- 7 Imitation and Resistance in Civil War Poetry and Song -- Notes -- 8 Children's Literature -- Describing the War -- Explaining the War -- Writing for African Americans -- Aftermaths -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 9 Writing Lives: Civil War Diaries -- Wartime Diarists and Their Publications -- The Gendered Genre -- Soldier Diaries -- Medical Accounts in Full View -- Notes -- 10 Civil War Memoir -- Before the Romance -- The Reconciliationist Impulse -- Notes -- 11 Civil War Narrative History -- Notes -- Part III Figures -- 12 Walt Whitman -- Notes -- 13 War and the Art of Writing: Emily Dickinson's Relational Aesthetics -- Notes -- 14 Herman Melville and the Civilian Author -- Notes -- 15 Looking at Lincoln -- Words -- Images -- Poetry -- Notes -- 16 Frederick Douglass, Violence, and Abraham Lincoln -- Notes -- 17 Mary Boykin Chesnut: Epic and Miniature -- Chesnut's Epic Text -- Notes -- 18 Mark Twain -- Notes -- 19 Replay: William Faulkner and the Civil War -- Civil Rights and Civil War -- The Great Migration -- The Great Depression -- The Battle of the Sexes -- Notes -- 20 Robert Penn Warren's Civil War -- The Legacy of the Civil War -- John Brown: The Making of a Martyr -- All the King's Men -- Band of Angels -- Wilderness -- Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back.
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Notes -- 21 Natasha Trethewey's Civil War -- Notes -- 22 Afterword: Archiving the War -- Notes -- Recommendations for Further Reading -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-10972-8
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
URL:
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