Literary Cultures of the Civil War
Literary Cultures of the Civil War
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Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism.
“Despite [the] instances of methodological discord, this multi- and interdisciplinary volume offers much to scholars of American literature and the Civil War, providing illuminating reinterpretations of canonical works and shedding light on underappreciated literary cultures. Literary scholars give far less attention to the Civil War and especially Reconstruction than do historians. Nonetheless, a revival is underway. Timothy Sweet’s Literary Cultures of the Civil War collects some of the best work being done. This collection features well-written essays on various aspects of literary culture and production—politics, poetics, structure, persuasion, realism, region. Testifies to the maturity of the scholarly field of literary study of the American Civil War. It also presents an exemplary model of how literary study can broaden and enhance our understanding of the people, objects, places, texts, and contexts that shaped and continue to shape the Civil War in American literature, culture, and popular imagination . . . In its selection, presentation, and contextualization of primary sources and scholarly material, as well as in its scholarly significance, Sweet's collection of essays sets the bar high.”
Timothy Sweet is the Eberly Family Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. He is the author of American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature and Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union.
Coleman Hutchison is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
Kathleen Difflet is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa and director of the Civil War Caucus at the M/MLA. She is the author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876 (Georgia).
“Despite [the] instances of methodological discord, this multi- and interdisciplinary volume offers much to scholars of American literature and the Civil War, providing illuminating reinterpretations of canonical works and shedding light on underappreciated literary cultures. Literary scholars give far less attention to the Civil War and especially Reconstruction than do historians. Nonetheless, a revival is underway. Timothy Sweet’s Literary Cultures of the Civil War collects some of the best work being done. This collection features well-written essays on various aspects of literary culture and production—politics, poetics, structure, persuasion, realism, region. Testifies to the maturity of the scholarly field of literary study of the American Civil War. It also presents an exemplary model of how literary study can broaden and enhance our understanding of the people, objects, places, texts, and contexts that shaped and continue to shape the Civil War in American literature, culture, and popular imagination . . . In its selection, presentation, and contextualization of primary sources and scholarly material, as well as in its scholarly significance, Sweet's collection of essays sets the bar high.”
Timothy Sweet is the Eberly Family Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. He is the author of American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature and Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union.
Coleman Hutchison is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
Kathleen Difflet is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa and director of the Civil War Caucus at the M/MLA. She is the author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876 (Georgia).