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Belligerent Muse - Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (Paperback)
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Belligerent Muse - Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (Paperback)
Series: Civil War America
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War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is,
in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil
War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent
realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters
and diaries to everyday newspaper accounts, great speeches, and
enduring literary works. In Belligerent Muse, Stephen Cushman
considers the Civil War writings of five of the most significant
and best known narrators of the conflict: Abraham Lincoln, Walt
Whitman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ambrose Bierce, and Joshua
Lawrence Chamberlain. Considering their writings both as literary
expressions and as efforts to record the rigors of the war, Cushman
analyzes their narratives and the aesthetics underlying them to
offer a richer understanding of how Civil War writing chronicled
the events of the conflict as they unfolded and then served to
frame the memory of the war afterward. Elegantly interweaving
military and literary history, Cushman uses some of the war's most
famous writers and their works to explore the profound ways in
which our nation's great conflict not only changed the lives of its
combatants and chroniclers but also fundamentally transformed
American letters.
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