To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave : American Poetry and the Civil War /

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"Focusing on literary and popular poets, as well as work by women, African Americans, and soldiers, this book considers how writers used poetry to articulate their relationships to family, community, and nation during the Civil War. Faith Barrett suggests that the nationalist "we" and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Barrett, Faith, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
War poetry, American.
War and literature.
Patriotic poetry, American.
American poetry.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Poesie americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Poesie patriotique americaine > Histoire et critique.
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
War poetry, American > History and criticism.
Patriotic poetry, American > History and criticism.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the rhetoric of voice in Civil War poetry
  • Shaping communities through popular song
  • "We are here at our country's call": nationalist commitments and personal stances in Union and Confederate soldiers' poems
  • The lyric I and the poetics of protest: Julia Ward Howe and Frances Harper
  • Addresses to a divided nation: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and the place of the lyric I
  • Romantic visions and Southern stances: Henry Timrod, Sarah Piatt, and George Moses Horton
  • "They answered him aloud": popular voice and nationalist allegiances in Herman Melville's battle-pieces
  • Epilogue: Civil War poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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