Graber, Samuel. <br/><br/>
Twice-Divided Nation :  National Memory, Transatlantic News, and American Literature in the Civil War Era. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (289 pages) 
<br/><br/>Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Revival and Revolution: The Modes of Modern Memory -- 1. Memory for the Masses: Sacred History and the National Press -- 2. Enslaved to the Past: Emerson and the Spirit of Antislavery News -- 3. The News and Walt Whitman: Poetry of the Divine Present -- Part II. War Stories and Memory Circuits: Hypernationalism and the Transatlantic Time Lag -- 4. Palaces of Memory: Global Information and the Specter of Catholicity -- 5. Wars and Rumors of Wars: Kansas and the Presentist Crusade -- 6. "Transatlantic Latter-Day Poetry": Nationalist Anxiety and the Memory Circuits of Leaves of Grass -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Graber shows how this movement toward cultural independence was reflected in a distinctively American literature, manifested in the writings of such diverse figures as journalist Horace Greeley and poet Walt Whitman. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813942391 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Press coverage.<br/>United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Press coverage-Great Britain.<br/>United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Literature and the war.<br/>Collective memory-United States.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E609 .G733 2019 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.7/1