TY - BOOK AU - Sweet,Timothy AU - Graber,Samuel AU - Hutchison,Coleman AU - Caddell,Jillian Spivey AU - Schultz,Jane E. AU - Barrett,Faith AU - Berkey,James AU - Samuels,Shirley TI - Literary Cultures of the Civil War SN - 9780820349596 AV - PS217.C58.L58 2016eb U1 - 810.9/358 PY - 2016/// CY - Athens PB - University of Georgia Press KW - War and literature--United States--History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4625387 ER -