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Funny Thing About the Civil War - Thomas F. Curran

Funny Thing About the Civil War

The Humor of an American Tragedy
Buch | Softcover
230 Seiten
2023
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-9235-7 (ISBN)
CHF 49,95 inkl. MwSt
Examining humour in depictions of the US Civil War from the war years to the present, this review covers a wide range of literature, film and television in historical context. Giving attention to the stories behind the stories, the author focuses on what people laughed at, who they laughed with and what it reveals about their view of events.
Examining humor in depictions of the Civil War from the war years to the present, this review covers a wide range of literature, film and television in historical context. Wartime humor served as a form of propaganda to render the enemy and their cause laughable, but also to help people cope with the human costs of the conflict. After the war many authors and, later, movie and television producers employed humor to shape its legacy, perpetuating myths and stereotypes that became ingrained in American memory. Giving attention to the stories behind the stories, the author focuses on what people laughed at, who they laughed with and what it reveals about their view of events.

Thomas F. Curran, PhD, teaches in the department of social studies at Cor Jesu Academy in St. Louis, Missouri.

Table of Contents


Preface: What’s So Funny About the Civil War?

Part I. “Crude partisan versifying on both sides”: The Wartime Writers

The Crackerbox Philosophers

“Where are the women among … the ‘literary comedians’ of the 1860s?”

The Biblical Satirists

The Scarlet Copperhead

“A period which produced so many good war songs, and so much bad war verse”

Two Fremantles, a Mule, and the Civil Wargasm

This Book Is Brought to You by the Committee to Elect George McClellan

Appendix (or Is That Appendage?)

“A delightful denunciation of Federal commanders”

Are “Two Federal Pens” Mightier Than Two Swords?

Part II. “The war was a draw game, and … both sides were whipped”: The Post-War Writers

How I Put Down the Rebellion

My Real Story Will Never Get into the Century’s Battles and Leaders Books

After a While They All Sound the Same…

… But This One Looks Like a Comic Book

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword (or Is That the Pin?)

The Many Lives of the Jordan Anderson Letter

Grant vs. Lee

A Tale of Two Kleggs

Uncle Remus Was White!

And Ambrose Bierce Was “an ­Equal-Opportunity Hater”

An Unrenowned Warrior

Postmodernism? We Haven’t Even Done Modernism Yet!

Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls

Part III. “Those who still fight the last romantic war”: The Next Generations

The Blue and Gray in Black and White, Then in Technicolor

What If Lincoln’s Doctor’s Dog Wrote a Biography?

Frankly, I Do Give a Damn

Happy Birthday, Gray and Blue

States’ Rights of the Living Dead

Everything Old Is New Again

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 308 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-4766-9235-1 / 1476692351
ISBN-13 978-1-4766-9235-7 / 9781476692357
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