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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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Print culture in the South
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Print culture in the South.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Diffley's trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction, called Making War Civil. Where her first book of the trilogy titled, Where My Heart is Turning Ever (UGA Press, 1992) charted the role of magazine fiction from the Northeast in "grounding the rites of citizenship" following the end of the Civil War, in Fateful Lightning, Diffley traces the sectional conflicts in a postwar nation, and how region shaped the political agendas of these post-war editorials. Diffley argues that the journals she looks at in this project present stories that give "unpredictable" results of sectional conflict and commemorate the Civil War differently from the Northeast publishing establishments. Diffley threads this through her analysis of four literary journals-the Baltimore's Southern Magazine, Charlotte's The Land We Love, Chicago's Lakeside Monthly, and San Francisco's Overland Monthly. Diffley uses a method of literary analysis that looks at not only on what is present in the text but through historically informed context, gleans cultural meanings from what the stories also "filter out." Coupling this literary analysis with city studies, Diffley's innovative approach demonstrate how these editorials offer, in her words, "varying gauges of continued political unrest, rising social opportunity, and dickering commemorative investments as Reconstruction began to unfold.""-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
War stories, American -- History and criticism.
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War stories, American. |
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Periodicals -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Periodicals -- Publishing. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
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War and 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: Diffley, Kathleen Elizabeth, 1950- Fateful lightning Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021] 9780820358550 (DLC) 2021029500 |
| ISBN |
0820358568 |
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9780820358567 (electronic book) |
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9780820358550 (hardcover) |
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9780820360652 (paperback) |
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