Nineteenth-century American literature and the long Civil War

Author(s)

• Marrs, Cody

Bibliographic Information

Nineteenth-century American literature and the long Civil War

Cody Marrs

（Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, 174）

Cambridge University Press, 2015

• : hardback

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

American literature in the nineteenth century is often divided into two asymmetrical 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 for literary history than has frequently been assumed. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took imaginative shape across, and even beyond, the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms and expressions for decades after 1865. These writers, Marrs demonstrates, are best understood not as antebellum or postbellum figures but as transbellum authors who cipher their later experiences through their wartime impressions and prewar ideals. This book is a bold, revisionary contribution to debates about temporality, periodization, and the shape of American literary history.

Table of Contents

• 1. Walt Whitman's dialectics
• 2. Frederick Douglass's revisions
• 3. Herman Melville's Civil Wars
• 4. Emily Dickinson's erasures.

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Details

• NCID: BB19337033
• ISBN:
  • 9781107109834
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 192 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 810.93581
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : War and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : War in literature
  • LCSH : United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00225445