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Belligerent Muse - Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (Paperback) Loot Price: R844
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Belligerent Muse - Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (Paperback): Stephen Cushman

Belligerent Muse - Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War (Paperback)

Stephen Cushman; Foreword by Gary W. Gallagher

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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Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Civil War America
Release date: February 2017
Authors: Stephen Cushman
Foreword by: Gary W. Gallagher
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 2mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3339-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war
Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN: 1-4696-3339-6
Barcode: 9781469633398

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