War Songs and Poems of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-1865
Author : Henry Marvin Wharton
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1904
Category : American poetry
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Author : Henry Marvin Wharton
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1904
Category : American poetry
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Author : Alice Fahs
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0807899291
In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related compositions, including poems, songs, children's stories, romances, novels, histories, and even humorous pieces. Fahs mines these rich but long-neglected resources to recover the diversity of the war's political and social meanings. Instead of narrowly portraying the Civil War as a clash between two great, white armies, popular literature offered a wide range of representations of the conflict and helped shape new modes of imagining the relationships of diverse individuals to the nation. Works that explored the war's devastating impact on white women's lives, for example, proclaimed the importance of their experiences on the home front, while popular writings that celebrated black manhood and heroism in the wake of emancipation helped readers begin to envision new roles for blacks in American life. Recovering a lost world of popular literature, The Imagined Civil War adds immeasurably to our understanding of American life and letters at a pivotal point in our history.
Author : Lorrie Goldensohn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 11,24 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231133104
Arranged by war, the book begins with the Colonial period and proceeds through Whitman admiring Civil War soldiers crossing a river to end with Brian Turner, who published his first book in 2005, beckoning a bullet in contemporary Iraq.
Author : William Shepard Walsh
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780342428311
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Author : Roy Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,58 MB
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 019802889X
For nearly three years, Walt Whitman immersed himself in the devastation of the Civil War, tending to thousands of wounded soldiers and recording his experiences with an immediacy and compassion unequaled in wartime literature anywhere in the world. In The Better Angel, acclaimed biographer Roy Morris, Jr. gives us the fullest account of Whitman's profoundly transformative Civil War years and an historically invaluable examination of the Union's treatment of its sick and wounded. Whitman was mired in depression as the war began, subsisting on journalistic hackwork, his "great career" as a poet apparently stalled. But when news came that his brother George had been wounded at Fredericksburg, Whitman rushed south to find him. Deeply affected by his first view of the war's casualties, he began visiting the camp's wounded and found his calling for the duration of the war. Three years later, he emerged as the war's "most unlikely hero," a living symbol of American democratic ideals of sharing and brotherhood. Brilliantly researched and beautifully written, The Better Angel explores a side of Whitman not fully examined before, one that greatly enriches our understanding of his later poetry. Moreover, it gives us a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the "other army"--the legions of sick and wounded soldiers who are usually left in the shadowy background of Civil War history--seen here through the unflinching eyes of America's greatest poet.
Author : Paul Negri
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 10,91 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0486112179
A superb selection of poems from both sides of the American Civil War features more than 75 inspired works by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Whitman, and many others.
Author : James Ford Rhodes
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 33,64 MB
Release : 2018-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 8026892623
This carefully crafted ebook: "History of the Civil War: 1861-1865" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This Pulitzer Prize winning book remains one of the best histories on the topic of American Civil War to this day. For the purpose of writing this comprehensive work, the author used the most authoritative documents and sources including Personal Traits of Lincoln, Life and Letters of General Meade, Diary of Gideon Welles, The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz and Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies.
Author : Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Poetry
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Author : Eli Siegel
Publisher :
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 31,91 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Kate Cumming
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752576731
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.