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Informationen zum Autor Colleen Glenney Boggs is professor of English at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation, 1773-1892 (2007) and Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (2013). She is working on a monograph tentatively entitled "Civil War Substitutes: How the Military Draft Changed American Literature." Klappentext Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the literatures of the American Civil War in the college classroom, including considerations of history, slavery, literary realism, race, gender, landscapes, violence, trauma, life writing, and performance. Includes information on editions, reference works, biographies, and online resources. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses. Zusammenfassung This volume helps teachers address the following questions: What is the relation of canonical works to the multitude of occasional texts that were penned in response to the Civil War? Should an approach to war literature reflect the chronology of historical events or focus on thematic clusters and theoretical concerns? How do we introduce students to archival materials?
