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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War (Hardcover)
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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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.
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