Peace in the Us Republic of Letters, 1840-1900

A volume on the intersections between US literary culture and early peace movements. It studies literature of the Civil War and postbellum fiction as well as novels engaged with problems arising in the aftermath of the Civil War.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• 1: Regeneration through Nonviolence


• 2: Abolishing Slavery, Imagining Peace


• 3: Violence, Direct and Indirect


• 4: Arbitration and Alliance


• 5: Race and Republican Peace


• 6: Failing at Peace


• Conclusion

About the author

Sandra M. Gustafson specializes in American literature and culture at the University of Notre Dame, where she is a member of the English faculty and a faculty fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Her previous works include Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic (Chicago, 2011) and Eloquence is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America (North Carolina, 2000), as well as two co-edited volumes: Reimagining the Republic: Race, Citizenship, and Nation in the Literary Work of Albion Tourgée (Fordham, 2022) and Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900 (Notre Dame, 2010).

Summary

A volume on the intersections between US literary culture and early peace movements. It studies literature of the Civil War and postbellum fiction as well as novels engaged with problems arising in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Product details

• Authors: Prof Sandra M. (Professor of English an Gustafson, Prof Sandra M. (William R. Kenan Jr. Pr Gustafson, Sandra M. Gustafson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2023
• EAN: 9780192884770
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288477-0
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; EDUCATION / General, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, History of the Americas, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers