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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 630–633.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Timothy Sweet If the Northern press valorized women’s domestic roles, the women of Daneen Wardrop’s Civil War Nurse Narratives turned this role to a public purpose. Faced with the challenge of gaining the reader’s approval—since close contact with men’s bodies could be seen as disreputable...
View articletitled, Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Belligerent Muse: Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Defining Duty in the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span>: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home Front <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870
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American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 594–598.
Published: 01 September 2020
..., they offer more, as Hager demonstrates. Read “as acts of writing,” they offer nothing less than “an emotional history of the Civil War” (10). Hager focuses on those for whom letter writing was something new and often required “ad hoc literacy education” (12), as they learned to use a conventionalized form...
View articletitled, The <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Dead and American Modernity Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> I Remain Yours: Common Lives in <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Letters The Literature of Reconstruction: Not in Plain Black and White
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 196–198.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Elizabeth Young © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic. By Julia A. Stern. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2010. xv, 330 pp. $45.00. Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860– 1862. By Ted Genoways. Berkeley...
View articletitled, Mary Chesnut's <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Epic; Walt Whitman and the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span>: America's Poet during the Lost Years of 1860– 1862; Horace Greeley's “New-York Tribune”: <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span>–Era Socialism and the Crisis of Free Labor
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A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II; Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 410–411.
Published: 01 June 2009
...Theo Hummer © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II . By Jennifer C. James. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. 324 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.50. Behind the Lines...
View articletitled, A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Literature from the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> to World <span class="search-highlight">War</span> II; Behind the Lines: <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941
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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860; The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 605–607.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., University of Virginia
The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women’s Literature in America, 1820–1860.
By Linda M. Grasso. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2002. xi, 249 pp.
Cloth, $49.95; paper, $18.95.
The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through...
View articletitled, The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860; The Language of <span class="search-highlight">War</span>: Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> through World <span class="search-highlight">War</span> II
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John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights.
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 March 2006
...Brooke Hopkins John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights. By David S. Reynolds. New York: Knopf. 2005. x, 578 pp. $35.00. 2006 Book Reviews
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War...
View articletitled, John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span>, and Seeded <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> Rights.
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From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature the Literatures of the Us-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity
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American Literature (2013) 85 (4): 819–821.
Published: 01 December 2013
...Jesse Alemán From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature . By Fuller Randall . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . x, 251 pp . $29.95 . The Literatures of the US-Mexican War: Narrative, Time, and Identity . By Rodríguez Jaime Javier...
View articletitled, From Battlefields Rising: How the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Transformed American Literature the Literatures of the Us-Mexican <span class="search-highlight">War</span>: Narrative, Time, and Identity
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American Literature (2024) 96 (2): 187–212.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Jess Libow Abstract This essay traces the visual cultures that emerged around Civil War soldiers’ pain and argues that the method of portraiture has much to offer the field of health humanities. It begins by tracing efforts to capture Civil War soldiers’ pain in both popular and clinical media...
View articletitled, “A Face of Anguish”: Pain and Portraiture in the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Hospital
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Tales Told by Empty Sleeves: Disability, Mendicancy, and Civil War Life Writing
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Jean Franzino Abstract This article considers texts written or sold by disabled Civil War veterans for their economic support as an understudied precursor to twentieth-century disability memoir and an instructive subgenre of the literature of poverty. These so-called mendicant texts challenged...
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A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier's Civil War
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American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 192–193.
Published: 01 March 2000
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A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier’s Civil War. By George E. Stephens. Ed. Donald
Yacovone. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 1998. xxi, 350 pp. Cloth, $26.95; paper,
$18.95.
Donald Yacovone provides...
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Contraband Singing: Poems and Songs in Circulation during the Civil War
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 271–304.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Michael C. Cohen Cohen excavates the social history of the contraband song, a genre of poetry and music popular during the American Civil War. Written in the voices of “contrabands,” former slaves living under the protection of the Union army, contraband songs emerged in the intersections...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 633–636.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Jane Anna Gordon The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War . By Smith Caleb . 2013 . Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press . xiii , 264 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; e-book , $35.00 . Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American...
View articletitled, The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture After 9/11
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for article titled, The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture After 9/11
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 823–826.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Cases . By Kristin Boudreau. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus. 2006. 292 pp. Paper, $20.00. Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852-1867 . By Deak Nabers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2006. xii, 234 pp. $49.95. Book Reviews
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View articletitled, The Kentucky Tragedy: A Story of Conflict and Change in Antebellum America; The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases; Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span>, and American Literature, 1852-1867
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Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination; Abolition's Public Sphere; Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937
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American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 617–619.
Published: 01 September 2006
.... of Minnesota Press. 2003. xl, 331 pp. Cloth, $63.95; paper, $22.95. Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 . By Sarah E. Gardner. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2004. x, 341 pp. $39.95. Book Reviews
‘‘A Hideous Monster of the Mind American...
View articletitled, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination; Abolition's Public Sphere; Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span>, 1861-1937
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Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 405–407.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Kate Marshall Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance . By Garvey Ellen Gruber . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2013 . x, 304 pp. Cloth , $115.00 ; paper, $31.95 ; e-book available. Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New...
View articletitled, Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> to the Harlem Renaissance Writing at the Limit: The Novel in the New Media Ecology
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The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South,1861-1865
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 869–870.
Published: 01 December 2003
...Kathleen Diffley By Alice Fahs. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2001. xi, 410 pp. $39.95. 2003 Reviews
The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861–1865.By
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“Geographical Morality”: Place and the Problem of Patriotism in John W. De Forest's Civil War Realism
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 555–582.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of tremendous potential, an imaginative hiatus between the Civil War's derealization of the national culture and the post-Reconstruction emergence of a powerful nation-state. The novel foreshadows contemporary debates about cultural nationalism versus liberal, rights-based citizenship as it works through...
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Postmodern American Literature and Its Other; Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database; From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction
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American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 643–646.
Published: 01 September 2009
...: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2008. xii, 392 pp. Cloth, $62.50; paper, $25.00. From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction . By Timothy Parrish. Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. 2008. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $80.00; paper, $28.95. Book Reviews
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View articletitled, Postmodern American Literature and Its Other; Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database; From the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History and American Fiction
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To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry and the Civil War America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 389–391.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Elizabeth Duquette To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry and the Civil War . By Barrett Faith . Amherst : Univ. of Massachusetts Press . 2012 . xiii , 336 pp. Paper , $27.95 . America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism . By Hanlon...
View articletitled, To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry and the <span class="search-highlight">Civil</span> <span class="search-highlight">War</span> America’s England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic Sectionalism
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Reconstructing Revenge: Race and Justice after the Civil War
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 751–781.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Gregory Laski Abstract This essay reconsiders the politics of African American literature after the Civil War by focusing on revenge as a response to the wrong of slavery. Though forgiveness dominates literary and historical scholarship, I assemble an archive of real and imagined instances...
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