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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793225803321

Autore

Graber Samuel J.

Titolo

Twice-Divided Nation : National Memory, Transatlantic News, and American Literature in the Civil War Era / / Samuel Graber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2019

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

0-8139-4239-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 pages)

Disciplina

973.7/1

Soggetti

Collective memory - United States

Electronic books.

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literature and the war

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Press coverage Great Britain

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Press coverage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Revival and revolution: the modes of modern memory. Memory for the masses: sacred history and the national press -- Enslaved to the past: Emerson and the spirit of antislavery news -- The news and  Walt Whitman: poetry of the divine present -- War stories and memory circuits: hypernationalism and the transatlantic time lag. Palaces of memory: global information and the specter of catholicity -- Wars and rumors of wars: Kansas and the presentist crusade -- "Transatlantic latter-day poetry": nationalist anxiety and the memory circuits of Leaves of grass -- Conclusion.