Facing America - Iconography and the Civil War

Zusatztext A study of Civil War iconography is long overdue.... Samuels offers a fertile reading of that symbol system and its slippages. Examining texts of all types--novels, statues, and images--she lays bare the preoccupying anxieties.... Samuels has an intriguing mind, and it is a pleasure to watch it work. Text after text, subhead after subhead, she offers compelling readings and telling juxtapositions of familiar and unfamiliar documents. Informationen zum Autor Shirley Samuels is Professor of English at Cornell University. Klappentext Facing America investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. Drawing on the literature as well as the photographs and political cartoons of the period, Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine. Zusammenfassung Exploring how the face and body of America were imagined both physically and metaphorically during the Civil War, this book shows how visual iconography affected changes in postbellum gendered and racialised identifications of the nation.

Product details

• Authors: Shirley Samuels, Shirley (Professor of English Samuels, Samuels Shirley
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9780195128970
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512897-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Regional Studies, United States of America, USA, Regional / International studies, History of the Americas, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), c 1860 to c 1869, Civil wars, American Civil War, HISTORY / Military / Early Modern Warfare (1500-1800)