Philip Gould

War Power (eBook, ePUB)

Literature and the State in the Civil War North

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Philip Gould examines nineteenth-century literature in light of the transformation of the federal state's power during the American Civil War. How do literary works engage the subjects of censorship, propaganda, and the reconfigured meanings of "loyalty" and "treason" at a time of political crisis?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780198897378
• Artikelnr.: 72281480

Autorenporträt

Philip Gould teaches at Brown University, where he is a member of the English Department. He has published books on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and British literatures for nearly thirty years.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Acknowledgments
* 1: Introduction
* 1: Hawthorne and the State of War
* 2: Altered Domesticities: Love and Loyalty in Louisa May Alcott's
Civil War Fiction
* 3: Power, Politics, and the Marriage Plot in the Fiction of John W.
De Forest
* 4: Race, Violence, and African-American Citizenship
* 5: Melville and the Time of War
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Bibliography