Twice-Divided Nation : National Memory, Transatlantic News, and American Literature in the Civil War Era.
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- 9780813942391
- 973.7/1
- E609 .G733 2019
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.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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