New Men : Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture /

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"This intriguing exploration of the post-Civil War period through its fiction and nonfiction illuminates how the era spawned a new understanding of war veterans that lives on today. Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Casey, John A., Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
War and literature.
Veterans in literature.
Veterans.
Veteran reintegration.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY > Military > General.
HISTORY > Social History.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Anciens combattants dans la litterature.
Anciens combattants > Reintegration > États-Unis > Histoire.
Anciens combattants > États-Unis > Histoire.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Veterans > Identity.
Veteran reintegration > United States > History.
Veterans > United States > History.
United States.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Demobilization, Disability, and the Competing Imagery of the Wounded Warrior and the Citizen-Soldier; 2. Veterans, Artisanal Manhood, and the Quest for Postwar Employment; 3. Narrating Traumatic Experience in Civil War Memoir; 4. The Glorious Burden of the Aging Civil War Veteran; 5. Racial Uplift and the Figure of the Black Soldier; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Series list.

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