- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- Connect to: