Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War

This book shows how the Civil War took imaginative shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.

List of contents

1. Walt Whitman's dialectics; 2. Frederick Douglass's revisions; 3. Herman Melville's Civil Wars; 4. Emily Dickinson's erasures.

About the author

Cody Marrs is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2010.

Summary

Nineteenth-century American literature is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.

Product details

• Authors: Cody Marrs, Cody (University of Georgia) Marrs
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781107109834
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10983-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies