Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)

Cushman, Stephen; Gallagher, Gary W.

ISBN 10: 0807170240 / ISBN 13: 9780807170243

Editore: LSU Press (edition Illustrated), 2019

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• Titolo: Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
• Editore: LSU Press (edition Illustrated)
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0807170240
• ISBN 13: 9780807170243
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: Illustrated.
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: sovraccoperta

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Riassunto

Civil War Writing is a collection of new essays that focus on the most significant writing about the American Civil War by participants who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Collectively, as contributors show, these writings have sustained their influence over generations and include histories, memoirs, journals, novels, and one literary falsehood posing as an autobiographical narrative. Several of the works, such as William Tecumseh Sherman’s memoirs or Mary Chesnut’s diary, are familiar to scholars, but other accounts, including Charlotte Forten’s diary and Loreta Velasquez’s memoir, offer new material to even the most omnivorous Civil War reader. In all cases, a deeper look at these writings reveals why they continue to resonate with audiences more than 150 years after the end of the conflict.

As supporting evidence for historical and biographical narratives and as deliberately designed communications, the writings discussed in this collection demonstrate considerable value. Whether exploring the differences among drafts and editions, listening closely to fluctuations in tone or voice, or tracing responses in private correspondence or published reviews, the essayists examine how authors wrote to different audiences and out of different motives, creating a complex literary record that offers rich potential for continuing evaluation of the country’s greatest national trauma.
Overall, the essays in Civil War Writing underscore how participants employed various literary forms to record, describe, and explain aspects and episodes of a conflict that assumed proportions none of them imagined possible at the outset.

Informazioni sull?autore

Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor of History at the University of Virginia and the author or editor of over of forty books on the history of the Civil War, including Becoming Confederates: Paths to a New National Identity.

Stephen Cushman is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is a prolific poet and the author of several works of non-fiction, including Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War.