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Where my heart is turning ever : Civil War stories and constitutional reform, 1861-1876 /

"During the Civil War and Reconstruction, popular magazines throughout the country published hundreds of short narratives that confronted or evaded the meaning of the Union's great crisis. Yet despite their importance as a measure of the era's cultural temper, these stories have remai...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Diffley, Kathleen Elizabeth, 1950- (Auteur, Compilateur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1992]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface: Popular Narratives and Civil Crisis
  • Domestic Narrative and National Stability : Mark Twain, "A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It" ; "One o'de ole Blue Hen's Chickens"
  • The Romance of Union as National Metaphor : John W. De Forest, "Parole d'Honneur" ; "A Woman's Only Revenge"
  • The Adventure of National Initiation : Rebecca Harding Davis, "How the Widow Crossed the Lines" ; "Thunder on the Plank Road"
  • Coda: From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus and Beyond.