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To fight aloud is very brave American poetry and the Civil War

Title
To fight aloud is very brave [electronic resource] : American poetry and the Civil War / Faith Barrett.
Author
Barrett, Faith, 1965-
Publication
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]

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Description
1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
To fight aloud is very brave (Online)
Alternative Title
To fight aloud is very brave (Online)
Subject
  • American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
  • War poetry, American > History and criticism
  • Patriotic poetry, American > History and criticism
  • United States > History > Literature and the war. > Civil War, 1861-1865
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and index.
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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.
LCCN
2012030820
OCLC
ssj0000822792
Author
Barrett, Faith, 1965-
Title
To fight aloud is very brave [electronic resource] : American poetry and the Civil War / Faith Barrett.
Imprint
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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