Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Revival and revolution: the modes of modern memory. Memory for the masses: sacred history and the national press
  • Enslaved to the past: Emerson and the spirit of antislavery news
  • The news and Walt Whitman: poetry of the divine present
  • War stories and memory circuits: hypernationalism and the transatlantic time lag. Palaces of memory: global information and the specter of catholicity
  • Wars and rumors of wars: Kansas and the presentist crusade
  • "Transatlantic latter-day poetry": nationalist anxiety and the memory circuits of Leaves of grass
  • Conclusion.