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From Battlefields Rising - How The Civil War Transformed American Literature (Paperback)
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From Battlefields Rising - How The Civil War Transformed American Literature (Paperback)
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When Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt
Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"-the
bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape
and character of American culture along with its political, racial,
and social landscape. Prior to the war, America's leading writers
had been integral to helping the young nation imagine itself,
assert its beliefs, and realize its immense potential. When the
Civil War erupted, it forced them to witness not only unimaginable
human carnage on the battlefield, but also the disintegration of
the foundational symbolic order they had helped to create. The war
demanded new frameworks for understanding the world and new forms
of communication that could engage with the immensity of the
conflict. It fostered both social and cultural experimentation.
From Battlefields Rising explores the profound impact of the war on
writers including Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman
Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Frederick
Douglass. As the writers of the time grappled with the war's impact
on the individual and the national psyche, their responses
multiplied and transmuted. Whitman's poetry and prose, for example,
was chastened and deepened by his years spent ministering to
wounded soldiers; off the battlefield, the anguish of war would
come to suffuse the austere, elliptical poems that Emily Dickinson
was writing from afar; and Hawthorne was rendered silent by his
reading of military reports and talks with soldiers. Calling into
question every prior presumption and ideal, the war forever changed
America's early idealism-and consequently its literature-into
something far more ambivalent and raw. Sketching an absorbing group
portrait of the period's most important writers, From Battlefields
Rising flashes with forgotten historical details and elegant new
ideas. It alters previous perceptions about the evolution of
American literature and how Americans have understood and expressed
their common history.
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