Author: Margaret Junkin Preston
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Alice Fahs
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807899291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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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: Stacey Jean Klein
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570037047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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A look at the life and prolific writings of Stonewall Jackson's sister-in-law

Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107057779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 437

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This History explores the development of literary culture in Virginia from the founding of Jamestown to the twenty-first century.

Author: Margaret J. Preston
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1592242227
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 74

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Poems written during the Civil War and after by Margaret J. Preston, covering themes of loss and bravery. Includes the epic "Beechenbrook" as well as "Virginia," "Jackson," "Dirge for Ashby," "Stonewall Jackson's Grave," and others.

Author: Mary T. Tardy
Publisher: Gale Cengage
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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Author: Margaret Junkin Preston
Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781377360614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Author: Coleman Hutchison
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082034365X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures, especially those of the United States and Britain. Thus, Coleman Hutchison argues, it has profound implications for our understanding of American literary nationalism and the relationship between literature and nationalism more broadly. Apples and Ashes is organized by genre, with each chapter using a single text or a small set of texts to limn a broader aspect of Confederate literary culture. Hutchison discusses an understudied and diverse archive of literary texts including the literary criticism of Edgar Allan Poe; southern responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; the novels of Augusta Jane Evans; Confederate popular poetry; the de facto Confederate national anthem, “Dixie”; and several postwar southern memoirs. In addition to emphasizing the centrality of slavery to the Confederate literary imagination, the book also considers a series of novel topics: the reprinting of European novels in the Confederate South, including Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables; Confederate propaganda in Europe; and postwar Confederate emigration to Latin America. In discussing literary criticism, fiction, poetry, popular song, and memoir, Apples and Ashes reminds us of Confederate literature’s once-great expectations. Before their defeat and abjection—before apples turned to ashes in their mouths—many Confederates thought they were in the process of creating a nation and a national literature that would endure.

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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 916

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An interdisciplinary journal of the South.

Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470

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