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War Power - Philip Gould

War Power

Literature and the State in the Civil War North

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Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-889735-4 (ISBN)
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Philip Gould examines nineteenth-century literature in light of the transformation of the federal state's power during the American Civil War. How do literary works engage the subjects of censorship, propaganda, and the reconfigured meanings of "loyalty" and "treason" at a time of political crisis?
What happens if we reconsider the literature of the Civil War North in light of the transformation of the federal state's power? While literary scholarship about the Civil War has more generally focused on the rise of wartime nationalism, Philip Gould looks particularly at how literary works engage the subjects of censorship, propaganda, and the reconfigured meanings of "loyalty" and "treason" at a time of political crisis.

During the war the Lincoln Administration shut down opposition newspapers and curtailed free expression and civil liberties protected by the US Constitution. Lincoln also suspended the writ of habeas corpus to deal with political dissenters and try to control public opinion. Early in the war, he coined the phrase "war power" to describe the (presumed) powers to address this crisis; his policies became controversial throughout the conflict. War Power: Literature and the State in the Civil War North considers literary production in this "total war" that radically changed the federal government's (and its military's) relation to traditional norms and spaces of private, domestic, and social life.

Each chapter focuses on a major writer in the Civil War North's engagement with questions of identity, affect, and affiliation: Could one love the Union as one loved home and family? What were the implications for literary expression in the midst of a political culture being reshaped by censorship and propaganda? The final two chapters address the role and plight of African Americans in the Civil War and its aftermath, focusing particularly on African American military service as the supposed means by which racially disenfranchised Americans might become citizens.

Philip Gould teaches at Brown University, where he is a member of the English Department. He has published books on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American and British literatures for nearly thirty years.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1: Introduction
1: Hawthorne and the State of War
2: Altered Domesticities: Love and Loyalty in Louisa May Alcott's Civil War Fiction
3: Power, Politics, and the Marriage Plot in the Fiction of John W. De Forest
4: Race, Violence, and African-American Citizenship
5: Melville and the Time of War
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Zusatzinfo 6 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 240 mm
Gewicht 542 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-889735-9 / 0198897359
ISBN-13 978-0-19-889735-4 / 9780198897354
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