Imagined Civil War Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865

Name: Imagined Civil War Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
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ISBN: 9780807854631

ISBN-10: 0807854638

ISBN-13: 9780807854631

Edition: 2003

Authors: Alice Fahs

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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…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Alice Fahs is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, and author of The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Popular Literary Culture in Wartime



The Early Spirit of War



The Sentimental Soldier



The Feminized War



Kingdom Coming: The Emancipation of Popular Literature



The Humor of War



The Sensational War



A Boys' and Girls' War



The Market Value of Memory: Histories of the War


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index