Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction remain a central part of American life a century and a half later. Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and genres of this period, including Walt Whitman, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis, Frederick Douglass, and Charles Chesnutt, as well as fiction, poetry, drama, and life-writing. Although focused on literature, this Companion also canvases battlefields, homefronts, and hospitals, and discusses a range of topics, including constitutional reform and presidential impeachment; emancipation and Africa; material culture and monuments; education, civil rights, and reenactment. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction speaks powerfully to literature's ability to help readers come to terms with a violent, oppressive history while also imagining a different future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009178549
• Artikelnr.: 66177101

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Blind Ruck of Event: 1. Violent identifications: Civilian
sectional rhetoric's during the American civil war Kimberly L. Harrison; 2.
Reading, sociability, and warfare Sarah E. Gardner; 3. Reconstructing the
civil war literature of injury, illness, and convalescence: caregivers,
soldiers, and civilians Jane E. Schultz; 4. "The home and the camp so
inseparable": Northern fictions and the union cause Allison M. Johnson; 5.
The confederacy and other southern fictions Katharine A. Burnett; 6. The
civil war ballad and its reconstruction Timothy Sweet; 7. The unfinished
drama of the American civil war Matthew Rebhorn; 8. Walt Whitman and the
reconstructive impulse of leaves of grass Samuel Graber; 9. Reconsidering
Moses: Frances Ellen Watkins harper and reconstruction Eric Gardner;
10. From "Facts" to "Pictures": Rebecca Harding Davis and civil war memory
Alicia Mischa Renfroe; Part II. Worlds Made and Remade: 11. The literature
of reconstruction and the worlds the civil war might have made Brook
Thomas; 12. Frederick Douglass, Andrew Johnson, and the work of
reconstruction Robert S. Levine; 13. African Americans, Africa, and the
long watch night for freedom Barbara McCaskill; 14. Literature and the
material cultures of confederate remembrance Kristen Treen; 15. Elmira and
the postwar geographies of black monumentalizing Jill Spivey Caddell; 16.
Charles Chesnutt and the reconstruction of black education Tess
Chakkalakal; 17. Charles Chesnutt, the colonel's dream, and the futures of
cotton Jennifer James; 18.Brown v. Board, the civil war centennial, and the
literature of civil rights Michael LeMahieu; 19. The future of civil war
and reconstruction literature Cody Marrs; 20. Reenactment as resistance
Patricia Davis.