03877nam 2200757Ia 450 991082534670332120230725032615.01-283-38335-797866133833580-8135-5112-910.36019/9780813551128(CKB)2670000000139849(EBL)832042(OCoLC)769927206(SSID)ssj0000576006(PQKBManifestationID)11330602(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000576006(PQKBWorkID)10554402(PQKB)10318242(MiAaPQ)EBC832042(MdBmJHUP)muse19692(DE-B1597)530237(DE-B1597)9780813551128(Au-PeEL)EBL832042(CaPaEBR)ebr10523603(CaONFJC)MIL338335(EXLCZ)99267000000013984920091102d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLoyal subjects[electronic resource] bonds of nation, race, and allegiance in nineteenth-century America /Elizabeth DuquetteNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20101 online resource (288 p.)The American Literatures Initiative"American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.0-8135-4780-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pledging Allegiance -- 1 / Loyalty, Oaths, and the Nation -- 2 / One Big Happy Family, Again? -- 3 / Pledging Allegiance in Henry James -- 4 / Loyalty’s Slaves -- 5 / Philosophies of Loyalty -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author When one nation becomes two, or when two nations become one, what does national affiliation mean or require? Elizabeth Duquette answers this question by demonstrating how loyalty was used during the U.S. Civil War to define proper allegiance to the Union. For Northerners during the war, and individuals throughout the nation after Appomattox, loyalty affected the construction of national identity, moral authority, and racial characteristics. Loyal Subjects considers how the Civil War complicated the cultural value of emotion, especially the ideal of sympathy. Through an analysis of literary works written during and after the conflict-from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Chiefly About War Matters" through Henry James's The Bostonians and Charles Chestnutt's "The Wife of His Youth," to the Pledge of Allegiance and W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown, among many others-Duquette reveals that although American literary criticism has tended to dismiss the Civil War's impact, postwar literature was profoundly shaped by loyalty.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literatureLoyalty in literatureAllegiance in literatureNationalism in literatureNationalism and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Literature and the warAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Loyalty in literature.Allegiance in literature.Nationalism in literature.Nationalism and literatureHistory810.9/35873518.06bclDuquette Elizabeth1963-1685649American Literatures Initiative.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825346703321Loyal subjects4057938UNINA