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This is a new account of the literary and cultural history of the Civil War era. It offers scholarly histories of the major authors, texts, forms, and movements that comprised American literature between 1851 and 1877. The approaches used in the volume reflect the most up-to-date and cutting-edge research methods of American literary studies.
List of contents
Introduction Cody Marrs; I. Careers: 1. Emily Dickinson Cristanne Miller; 2. Frederick Douglass Gregory Laski; 3. Augusta Jane Evans Melissa Homestead; 4. Herman Melville Brian Yothers; 5. John Rollin Ridge Alanna Hickey; 6. Walt Whitman Peter Riley; 7. Anonymous Michael Cohen; II. Networks: 8. Newspapers and Periodicals Ryan Cordell; 9. Transamerican Literature Alberto Varon; 10. Oceanic Literature Edward Sugden; 11. Romanticism Jennifer Baker; 12. Realism Todd Carmody; III. Exchanges: 13. Literature and/as Philosophy Michael Jonik; 14. Literature and/as Science Mark Noble; 15. Literature and/as Ecology Juliana Chow; 16. Literature and/as Economics Andrew Kopec; IV. The Long Civil War: 17. The War before the War Maurice Lee; 18. Union Literature Ian Finseth; 19. Confederate Literature Christopher Hanlon; 20. Reconstruction Literature Elizabeth Renker; 21. The Global Civil War Elizabeth Duquette.
About the author
Cody Marrs is a Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of An Aesthetics in All Things: Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies, Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War; the editor of The New Melville Studies; and a co-editor of Timelines of American Literature. He lives with his family in Athens, Georgia.
Summary
This is a new account of the literary and cultural history of the Civil War era. It offers scholarly histories of the major authors, texts, forms, and movements that comprised American literature between 1851 and 1877. The approaches used in the volume reflect the most up-to-date and cutting-edge research methods of American literary studies.
