Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691248578ISBN-10:691248575UPC:9780691248578Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Modern, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:19th Century, Historical EventsSize:9.30 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC110EEB4P
Haunted by the Civil War: Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States
How the legacy of the Civil War--as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time--has shaped American visions of democracy
In Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others to investigate the long cultural shadow of America's cataclysmic sundering. Juxtaposing these...Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691248578ISBN-10:691248575UPC:9780691248578Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Modern, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:19th Century, Historical EventsSize:9.30 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC110EEB4P
Shirley Samuels is the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War and Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation.
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