16%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Literary Cultures of the Civil War
Timothy . Ed(S): Sweet
€ 50.99
€ 42.74
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Literary Cultures of the Civil War
Hardback. Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. Editor(s): Sweet, Timothy. Num Pages: 288 pages, 13 black & white images. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSRC; HBJK; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 535.
Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. The Civil War reshaped existing literary cultures or enabled new ones. Ensembles of discourses, conventions, and practices, these cultures offered fresh ways of engaging a host of givens about American character and values that the war called into question.
The volume’s contributors look at how literary cultures of the ... Read more
Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. The Civil War reshaped existing literary cultures or enabled new ones. Ensembles of discourses, conventions, and practices, these cultures offered fresh ways of engaging a host of givens about American character and values that the war called into question.
The volume’s contributors look at how literary cultures of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820349602
SKU
V9780820349602
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-3
About Timothy . Ed(S): Sweet
Timothy Sweet is the Eberly Family Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University, USA. He is the author of American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature and Traces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union.
Reviews for Literary Cultures of the Civil War