Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War
By Cody Marrs
2015
First Published
4.50
Average Rating
205
Number of Pages
Part of Series
American literature in the nineteenth century is often divided into two halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. In Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, Cody Marrs argues that the war is a far more elastic boundary forliterary history than has frequently been assumed. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, andEmily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took imaginative shapeacross, and even beyond, the nineteenth century, inflecting literaryforms and expressions for decades after 1865. These writers, Marrsdemonstrates, are best understood not as antebellum or postbellumfigures but as transbellum authors who cipher their later experiencesthrough their wartime impressions and prewar ideals. This book is abold, revisionary contribution to debates about temporality,periodization, and the shape of American literary history.
Avg Rating
4.50
Number of Ratings
2
5 STARS
50%
4 STARS
50%
3 STARS
0%
2 STARS
0%
1 STARS
0%
goodreads
