Victorian America and the Civil War
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Victorian America and the Civil War
Cambridge University Press, 1994
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Includes bibliography (p. 277-293) and index
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Victorian America and the Civil War examines the relationship between American Victorian culture and the Civil War. The author argues that at the heart of American Victorian culture was Romanticism, a secular quest to answer questions previously settled by traditional religion. In examining the biographies of seventy-five Americans who lived in the antebellum and Civil War eras, elements of disequilibrium, passion and intellectual excitement are explored in contrast to the traditional view of Victorian self-control and moral assurance. The Civil War is shown to be a central event in the cultural life of the American Victorians, which both was an environment for the resolution of their questions and a place where their values and aspirations could be reshaped. Anne Rose is the author of the award-winning book Transcendentalism as a Social Movement, 1830-1850.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- preface
- Introduction
- 1. Religion
- 2. Work
- 3. Leisure
- 4. Family
- 5. Politics
- 6. Victorian America and the Civil War
- Appendixes
- Selected bibliography
- Index.
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