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This Mighty Convulsion - Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War (Paperback)
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This Mighty Convulsion - Whitman and Melville Write the Civil War (Paperback)
Series: Iowa Whitman Series
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This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War
writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most
important poets of the war. The essays brought together in this
volume add significantly to recent critical appreciation of the
skill and sophistication of these poets; growing recognition of the
complexity of their views of the war; and heightened appreciation
for the anxieties they harbored about its aftermath. Both in the
ways they come together and seem mutually influenced, and in the
ways they disagree, Whitman and Melville grapple with the
casualties, complications, and anxieties of the war while
highlighting its irresolution. This collection makes clear that
rather than simply and straightforwardly memorializing the events
of the war, the poetry of Whitman and Melville weighs carefully all
sorts of vexing questions and considerations, even as it engages a
cultural politics that is never pat. Contributors: Kyle Barton,
Peter Bellis, Adam Bradford, Jonathan A. Cook, Ian Faith, Ed
Folsom, Timothy Marr, Cody Marrs, Christopher Ohge, Vanessa
Steinroetter, Sarah L. Thwaites, Brian Yothers
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