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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Diffley, Kathleen Elizabeth, 1950- (Author, Compiler)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1992]
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Popular literature > United States > History and criticism.
War stories, American > History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > 19th century.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Paralittérature > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Récits de guerre américains > Histoire et critique.
Narration > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
American literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Popular literature
War and literature
War stories, American
Literatur
Sezessionskrieg > 1861-1865, Motiv
Verfassungsreform
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war.
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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