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Civil War writing : new perspectives on iconic texts
- Title
- Civil War writing : new perspectives on iconic texts / edited by Gary W. Gallagher & Stephen Cushman.
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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- Description
- x, 296 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In Civil War Writing: New Perspectives on Iconic Texts, editors Gary W. Gallagher and Stephen Cushman collect new scholarly essays which explore the significant texts about the American Civil War written by the people who lived through it, whether as civilians or combatants, southerners or northerners, women or men, blacks or whites. Several of the works discussed in the book, such as William Tecumseh Sherman's and Edward Porter Alexander's memoirs and Mary Chesnut's diary, will be familiar to many readers, but other works, including Charlotte Forten's diary and Loreta Velasquez's memoir, may not. In all cases, the contributors explore why these works resonate with audiences across different eras"--
- Series Statement
- Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil War
- Uniform Title
- Conflicting worlds.
- Subjects
- United States
- American literature
- War and literature
- Personal narratives
- 1800-1899
- War in literature
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- History
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Sources
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Sources
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Personal narratives.
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Joseph T. Wilson's The black phalanx: African American patriotism and the won cause / Elizabeth R. Varon -- The soldier who never was: Loreta Velasquez and the woman in battle / William C. Davis -- Surrender according to Johnston and Sherman / Stephen Cushman -- Little women: Louisa May Alcott's novel of the home front / J. Matthew Gallman -- Duty to my country and myself: the Jubal A. early memoirs / Kathryn Shively -- Considering the war from home and the front: Charlotte Forten's Civil War diary entries / Brenda E. Stevenson -- Forget to weep my dead: Mary Chesnut's Civil War reading / Sarah E. Gardner -- The fatal halts: Gettysburg, the wilderness, and Cedar Creek in John B. Gordon's Reminiscences / Keith S. Bohannon -- The best Confederate memoirist: Edward Porter Alexander's unrivalled military accounts / Gary W. Gallagher.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5991
- ISBN
- 9780807170243
- 0807170240
- LCCN
- 2018036955
- OCLC
- 1043563123
- Title
- Civil War writing : new perspectives on iconic texts / edited by Gary W. Gallagher & Stephen Cushman.
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Conflicting worlds : new dimensions of the American Civil WarConflicting worlds.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Gallagher, Gary W., editor.Cushman, Stephen, 1956- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5991