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Informationen zum Autor Shirley Samuels works with the American Studies program and the Feminist! Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Cornell University. She has taught at Princeton! Brandeis and the University of Delaware. She has had fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies! the Huntington Library and the Library Company of Philadelphia. In addition to journal articles and chapters in books! she is author of Reading the American Novel: 1780-1865 (2012)! Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War (2004) and Romances of the Republic: Women! the Family! and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation (1996). She is editor of the Companion to American Fiction! 1780-1865 (2004) and The Culture of Sentiment: Race! Gender! and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America (1992). Klappentext Emphasizing the significance of his political and historical engagement, this work casts Abraham Lincoln as a cultural figure. Zusammenfassung This collection will appeal to teachers, students and readers of American history who want to understand Abraham Lincoln as a cultural figure. The essays examine the rhetorical power of Lincoln's prose – from the earliest legal decisions, stump speeches, anecdotes and letters, to the Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural Address. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of contributors; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Rhetorically Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln and oratorical culture Ivy Wilson; 2. Abraham Lincoln and poetry Faith Barrett; 3. Seeing Lincoln: visual encounters Carol Payne; 4. The Gettysburg Address and the Second Inaugural Stephen Cushman; 5. Lincoln and the natural nation Timothy Sweet; 6. Abraham Lincoln and the American Indians Bethany Schneider; 7. Abraham Lincoln and the self-governing constitution Deak Nabers; 8. Abraham Lincoln and spiritual crisis Harold K. Bush; 9. Lincoln and England during the Civil War Paul Giles; 10. Lincoln in international memory Betsy Erkkila; 11. Lincoln in hemispheric relations Robert Fanuzzi; 12. Lincoln and the calling of the dead Anne Norton; Guide to further reading; Index....
