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To fight aloud is very brave : American poetry and the Civil War
- Title
- To fight aloud is very brave : American poetry and the Civil War / Faith Barrett.
- Author
- Barrett, Faith, 1965-
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-680 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 336 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: the rhetoric of voice in Civil War poetry -- Shaping communities through popular song -- "We are here at our country's call": nationalist commitments and personal stances in Union and Confederate soldiers' poems -- The lyric I and the poetics of protest: Julia Ward Howe and Frances Harper -- Addresses to a divided nation: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and the place of the lyric I -- Romantic visions and Southern stances: Henry Timrod, Sarah Piatt, and George Moses Horton -- "They answered him aloud": popular voice and nationalist allegiances in Herman Melville's battle-pieces -- Epilogue: Civil War poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-680
- ISBN
- 9781558499638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1558499636 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781558499621 (library cloth : alk. paper)
- 1558499628 (library cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012030820
- OCLC
- 794709391
- Author
- Barrett, Faith, 1965-
- Title
- To fight aloud is very brave : American poetry and the Civil War / Faith Barrett.
- Imprint
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-680