Literary Cultures of the Civil War.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (286 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: Shaping the Civil War Canon -- I. African American Literary Cultures -- "if we Ever Expect to be a Pepple": The Epistolary Culture of African American Soldiers -- The Color of Quaintness: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Black Song, and American Union -- The Negro in the American Rebellion: William Wells Brown and the Design of African American History -- "Naked Genius": The Civil War Poems of George Moses Horton -- II. Poetics of War -- Melville's Battle-Pieces and Vernacular Poetics -- "Help'd, Braced, Concentrated": Transatlantic Tensions and Whitman's National War Poetry -- Surplus Patriotism: William Gilmore Simms's War Poetry of the South and the Afterlife of Confederate Literary Nationalism -- III. Mediations of Nation and Region -- Traces of the Confederacy: Soldier Newspapers and Wartime Printing in the Occupied South -- The Turn against Sentiment: Kate Cumming and Confederate Realism -- Mourning and Substitution in The Gates Ajar -- "Near Andersonville": Place and Race in Early American Regionalism -- Emancipation and Grizzly Reckoning: The Advent of Photography, California's Overland Monthly, and the Model of Parallax -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.