Imagined Civil War (eBook)

Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865

Alice Fahs (Autor)

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2010
424 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-9929-8 (ISBN)

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In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related compositions, including poems, songs, children's stories, romances, novels, histories, and even humorous pieces. Fahs mines these rich but long-neglected resources to recover the diversity of the war's political and social meanings.Instead of narrowly portraying the Civil War as a clash between two great, white armies, popular literature offered a wide range of representations of the conflict and helped shape new modes of imagining the relationships of diverse individuals to the nation. Works that explored the war's devastating impact on white women's lives, for example, proclaimed the importance of their experiences on the home front, while popular writings that celebrated black manhood and heroism in the wake of emancipation helped readers begin to envision new roles for blacks in American life. Recovering a lost world of popular literature, The Imagined Civil War adds immeasurably to our understanding of American life and letters at a pivotal point in our history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.3.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: 35 illus. , notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: advice columnists • African American newspaper women • African-Americans • American Cultural History • Beatrice Fairfax • black newspaper women • black women reporters • children's war literature • Civil War • Confederacy • economy • Elizabeth Banks • female reporters • feminized war literature • Gender • Hearst • Human Interest • Journalists • Literary History • Marie Manning • Nellie Bly • Newspapers • newspaper women • New Women • New York Journal • New York newspapers • New York World • Nixola Greeley-Smith • North and South • out on assignment • popular culture • popular War literature • Publicity • Public Space • Pulitzer • racial • Reporters • scoring “beats” • scoring �beats� • sensational journalism • sensational newspapers • sensational war novels • sentimental war literature • space writers • Suffrage • Union • war correspondent • war histories • war humor • War Poetry • war songs • woman’s page • woman suffrage • woman�s page • Women • Women journalists • women reporters • “yellow” journalism • �yellow� journalism
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-9929-1 / 0807899291
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-9929-8 / 9780807899298