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Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900
Martin Griffin
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Description for Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900
Paperback. Examines the work of five Northerners - three poets and two fiction writers - who over a period of four decades tried to understand and articulate the landscape of memory in postwar America, and in particular in that part of the nation that could, with most justification, claim the victory of its beliefs and values. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 372.
This book discusses how Northern writers came to grips with the mixed legacy of the Civil War.The memory of the American Civil War took many forms over the decades after the conflict ended: personal, social, religious, and political. It was also remembered and commemorated by poets and fiction writers who understood that the war had bequeathed both historical and symbolic meanings to American culture. Although the defeated Confederacy became best known for producing a literature of nostalgia and an ideological defensiveness intended to protect the South's own version of history, authors loyal to the Union also confronted the question of ... Read more
This book discusses how Northern writers came to grips with the mixed legacy of the Civil War.The memory of the American Civil War took many forms over the decades after the conflict ended: personal, social, religious, and political. It was also remembered and commemorated by poets and fiction writers who understood that the war had bequeathed both historical and symbolic meanings to American culture. Although the defeated Confederacy became best known for producing a literature of nostalgia and an ideological defensiveness intended to protect the South's own version of history, authors loyal to the Union also confronted the question of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558496903
SKU
V9781558496903
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About Martin Griffin
MARTIN GRIFFIN is assistant professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Reviews for Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900
Ashes of the Mind will both add to the existing scholarship in a meaningful way and model a kind of interdisciplinarity that the field sorely needs. - Lyde Cullen Sizer, author of The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872