Midnight in America (eBook)

Darkness, Sleep, and Dreams during the Civil War

Jonathan W. White (Autor)

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2017
296 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3205-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The Civil War brought many forms of upheaval to America, not only in waking hours but also in the dark of night. Sleeplessness plagued the Union and Confederate armies, and dreams of war glided through the minds of Americans in both the North and South. Sometimes their nightly visions brought the horrors of the conflict vividly to life. But for others, nighttime was an escape from the hard realities of life and death in wartime. In this innovative new study, Jonathan W. White explores what dreams meant to Civil Warera Americans and what their dreams reveal about their experiences during the war. He shows how Americans grappled with their fears, desires, and struggles while they slept, and how their dreams helped them make sense of the confusion, despair, and loneliness that engulfed them.White takes readers into the deepest, darkest, and most intimate places of the Civil War, connecting the emotional experiences of soldiers and civilians to the broader history of the conflict, confirming what poets have known for centuries: there are some truths that are only revealed in the world of darkness.

Autor

Jonathan W. White is associate professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.2.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: 25 halftones, 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: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abraham Lincoln • Alexander H. Stephens • dream reports • dreams and nightmares of battle • Jefferson Davis • marital infidelity • nightmares of battle • popular culture • post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • premonitions of death • psychological effects of imprisonment • romantic dreams • slave escapes to freedom • Spiritualism • the Confederate home front • the sleep deprivation of soldiers • the spiritual lives of slaves • the Union home front • Union and Confederate prisoners of war
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3205-5 / 1469632055
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3205-6 / 9781469632056