The Imagined Civil War

Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8078-5463-1
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 721 g

Reihe: Civil War America

The American Civil War inspired a remarkable outpouring of popular literature. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a torrent of war related works, including poems, songs, children's stories, romances, novels, histories and even humorous pieces. Mining these long-neglected sources, Alice Fahs demonstrates that 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 conflict and helped shape new modes of imagining the relationships of diverse individuals - including African-Americans - to the nation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fahs, Alice

Über Autor(innen)

Alice Fahs is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Her previous books include <i>The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865</i>.