| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 174
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 174.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Transbellum American literature -- Walt Whitman's dialectics -- Frederick Douglass's revisions -- Herman Melville's civil wars -- Emily Dickinson's erasures -- Coda: Other nineteenth centuries. |
| Summary |
"American literature in the nineteenth century is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. In Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, Cody Marrs argues that the war is a far more elastic boundary for literary history than has frequently been assumed. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took imaginative shape across, and even beyond, the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms and expressions for decades after 1865. These writers, Marrs demonstrates, are best understood not as antebellum or postbellum figures but as transbellum authors who cipher their later experiences through their wartime impressions and prewar ideals. This book is a bold, revisionary contribution to debates about temporality, periodization, and the shape of American literary history."--Publisher's description. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
University of South Alabama. |
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
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War and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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War and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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War in literature.
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War in literature. |
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Marrs, Cody. Nineteenth-century American literature and the long Civil War 9781107109834 (DLC) 2015003105 (OCoLC)903473842 |
| ISBN |
9781316358573 (electronic book) |
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1316358577 (electronic book) |
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9781316363973 |
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9781316272107 |
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1316272109 |
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131636397X |
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9781316364970 |
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1316364976 |
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9781107109834 |
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1107109833 |
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9781107525344 (paperback) |
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1107525349 |
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