Screen LibraryA history of American Civil War literature /
This omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War examines the way in which the war has been remembered and rewritten over time in prose, poems, and other narratives. It incorporates new directions in Civil War historiography and cultural studies while giving equal attention to writin...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War examines the way in which the war has been remembered and rewritten over time in prose, poems, and other narratives. It incorporates new directions in Civil War historiography and cultural studies while giving equal attention to writings from both Northern and Southern states. It also 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, it 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? |
| Carrier Form: | xxiii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-348) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107109728 1107109728 |
| Index Number: | PS217 |
| CLC: |
K712.43 I712.064 |
| Call Number: | I712.064/H673 |
| Contents: |
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the "Book That Made This Great War" / The American Book Trade and the Civil War / The Transatlantic History of Civil War Literature / The "American Renaissance" after the American Civil War / The Realists' Civil War / Dépôt Culture: The Civil War and Periodical Fiction / Imitation and Resistance in Civil War Poetry and Song / Children's Literature / Writing Lives: Civil War Diaries / Civil War Memoir / Civil War Narrative History / Walt Whitman / War and the Art of Writing: Emily Dickinson's Relational Aesthetics / Herman Melville and the Civilian Author / Looking at Lincoln / Frederick Douglass, Violence, and Abraham Lincoln / Mary Boykin Chesnut: Epic and Minature / Mark Twain / Replay: William Faulkner and the Civil War / Robert Penn Warren's Civil War / Natasha Trethewey's Civil War / Afterword: Archiving the War / |