authors:subjects:- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- War and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- War in literature
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
publishers:ISBN:- 0415977436 :
- 0415977444 (pbk. : alk. paper)
description:notes:- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Table of Contents (Prospective) Introduction: The Written War I. BATTLEFIELDS George Moses Horton (1798? - ca. 1880) from Naked Genius (1865) "The Dying Soldier's Message" "The Thought of Home in Battle" "Execution of Private Henry Anderson" "The Spectator of the Battle of Belmont" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) "The Cumberland" "Killed at the Ford" Walt Whitman (1819-1892) from Complete Prose Works (1892) from Specimen Days (orig. 1882) "A Night Battle, Over a Week Since" "A Glimpse of War's Hell-Scenes" "The Weather. - Does It Sympathize with These Times?" "Two Brothers, One South, One North" Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) from Songs for War Time (1863) "Freedom's Morning" Ethel Lynn Beers (1827-1879) "The Picket Guard" (Harper's 1861) S. Weir Mitchell (1829-1914) "The Case of George Dedlow" (Atlantic Monthly, July 1866) Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) from Sonnets and Lyrics (1886) "Songs of Battle" Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) from Bits of Autobiography (vol. 1 of Collected Works [New York, 1909-12]) "What I Saw of Shiloh" from Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1892; retitled In the Midst of Life, vol. 2 of CW) "Chickamauga" "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" "A Horseman in the Sky" "A Son of the Gods" from Can Such Things Be? (vol. 3 of CW) "A Tough Tussle" from Antepenultimata (vol. 11 of CW) "A Bivouac of the Dead" (1903) "The Crime at Pickett's Mill" Septima M. Collis (1842-1917) A Woman's War Record, 1861-1865 (1889) Stephen Crane (1871-1900) "A Young Soldier's First Battle" "The Little Regiment" (1895) "A Mystery of Heroism: A Detail of an American Battle" "An Episode of War" "A Grey Sleeve" II. AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE George Moses Horton (1798? - ca. 1880) from Naked Genius (1865) "The Slave" Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "Boston Hymn" (1863) "Voluntaries" (1863) Frances D. Gage (1808-1884) "Reminiscences of Sojourner Truth" (1863) Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) "Negro Spirituals" (Atlantic Monthly, July 1867) from Army.
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