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Veteran Americans : literature and citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction
- Title
- Veteran Americans : literature and citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction / Benjamin Cooper.
- Author
- Cooper, Benjamin
- Publication
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 223 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- ""I may dare to speak, and I intend to speak and write what I think," wrote a New York volunteer serving in the Mexican War in 1848. Such setiments of resistance and confrontation run throughout the literature produced by veteran Americans in the nineteenth century - from prisoner-of-war narratives and memoirs to periodicals, adventure pamphlets, and novels. Military men and wormen were active participants in early American print culture, yet they struggled against civilian prejudice about their character, shifting collective memories that removed military experience from the nation's self-definition, and a variety of headwinds in the uneven development of antebellum print culture. In this new literary history of early American veterans, Benjamin Cooper reveals how soldiers and sailors from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War demanded, through their writing, that their value as American citizens and authors be recognized. Relying on an archive of largely understudied veteran authors, Cooper situates their perspectives agains a civilian monopoly in defining American citizenship and literature that endures to this day."
- Series Statement
- Veterans
- Uniform Title
- Veterans (University of Massachusetts Press)
- Subject
- Veterans in literature > History
- American literature > History and criticism
- Veterans > United States > Intellectual life
- Veteran reintegration > United States > History
- Authors, American > Political activity > History
- American literature
- Authors, American > Political activity
- Veteran reintegration
- Veterans in literature
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-216) and index.
- Contents
- What we talk about when we talk about Veteran Americans -- Revolutionary captivity -- Civilian memories and veteran memoir -- A bunch of veteran amateurs -- The real and written war -- Veterans in outer space -- Khe Sanh.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-6123
- ISBN
- 9781625343307
- 1625343302
- 9781625343314
- 1625343310
- OCLC
- 1012346089
- Author
- Cooper, Benjamin, author.
- Title
- Veteran Americans : literature and citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction / Benjamin Cooper.
- Publisher
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- VeteransVeterans (University of Massachusetts Press)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-216) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-6123