Battle lines. Poetry and mass media in the U.S. Civil War /

During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately r...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Richards, Eliza (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Subjects:
1800-1899
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
Mass media and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
War and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
War poetry, American > History and criticism.
Poésie américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Médias et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Guerre et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
HISTORY > North America.
American poetry.
Mass media and literature.
Mass media and war.
War and literature.
War poetry, American.
Lyrik
Massenmedien
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865, Motiv
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Mass media and the war.
United States.
USA.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Strange analogies": weathering the war
  • The "ghastly harvest"
  • "To signalize the hour": memorialization and the Massachusetts 54th
  • Poetry under siege: Charleston Harbor's Talking Guns
  • Poetry at sea: naval ballads and the battle of Mobile Bay

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