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Literary Cultures of the Civil War
Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cau...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Georgia Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Shaping the Civil War Canon; I. African American Literary Cultures; "if we Ever Expect to be a Pepple": The Epistolary Culture of African American Soldiers; The Color of Quaintness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Black Song, and American Union; The Negro in the American Rebellion: William Wells Brown and the Design of African American History; "Naked Genius": The Civil War Poems of George Moses Horton; II. Poetics of War; Melville's Battle-Pieces and Vernacular Poetics.
- "Help'd, Braced, Concentrated": Transatlantic Tensions and Whitman's National War PoetrySurplus Patriotism: William Gilmore Simms's War Poetry of the South and the Afterlife of Confederate Literary Nationalism; III. Mediations of Nation and Region; Traces of the Confederacy: Soldier Newspapers and Wartime Printing in the Occupied South; The Turn against Sentiment: Kate Cumming and Confederate Realism; Mourning and Substitution in The Gates Ajar; "Near Andersonville": Place and Race in Early American Regionalism.
- Emancipation and Grizzly Reckoning: The Advent of Photography, California's Overland Monthly, and the Model of ParallaxCONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.