LEADER 04395oam 2200529I 450 001 9910151715503321 005 20240501162935.0 010 $a1-315-43823-2 010 $a1-315-43825-9 010 $a1-315-43824-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315438252 035 $a(CKB)3710000000952411 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4745723 035 $a(OCoLC)963934758 035 $a(BIP)63379971 035 $a(BIP)67031777 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000952411 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe arts and culture of the American Civil War /$fedited by James A. Davis 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (234 pages) $cillustrations, tables 311 08$a0-367-22965-X 311 08$a1-4724-5451-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. "My thoughts are not here" : the Civil War dance floor as multitemporal place / James A. Davis -- 2. "But that's the old wound, you see" : Ambrose Bierce's Civil War poetry / Michael W. Schaefer -- 3. "Her bright smile haunts me still" : imagining women in the Confederate minstrel shows on Johnson's Island, Ohio / Kirsten M. Schultz -- 4. "Do let me preserve the unities" : the stakes of metaphor in Civil War-era fiction / Rebecca Entel -- 5. "One of the most beautiful villages that ever were seen" : Civil War architecture / Megan Kate Nelson -- 6. "Dearest sister, 'who will care for mother now?'" : epistolary songs of the Civil War northern home front / Sabra Statham -- 7. "No partial picture" : Peter F. Rothermel's The Battle of Gettysburg, Pickett's Charge / Barbaranne E.M. Liakos -- 8. "You women folks has no business to be here anyhow" : romancing the war and women in Civil War memories on stage / Bethany D. Holmstrom. 330 $aIn 1864, Union soldier Charles George described a charge into battle by General Phil Sheridan: "Such a picture of earnestness and determination I never saw as he showed as he came in sight of the battle field . . . What a scene for a painter! " These words proved prophetic, as Sheridan's desperate ride provided the subject for numerous paintings and etchings as well as songs and poetry. George was not alone in thinking of art in the midst of combat; the significance of the issues under contention, the brutal intensity of the fighting, and the staggering number of casualties combined to form a tragedy so profound that some could not help but view it through an aesthetic lens, to see the war as a concert of death. It is hardly surprising that art influenced the perception and interpretation of the war given the intrinsic role that the arts played in the lives of antebellum Americans. Nor is it surprising that literature, music, and the visual arts were permanently altered by such an emotional and material catastrophe. In The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War, an interdisciplinary team of scholars explores the way the arts - theatre, music, fiction, poetry, painting, architecture, and dance - were influenced by the war as well as the unique ways that art functioned during and immediately following the war. Included are discussions of familiar topics (such as Ambrose Bierce, Peter Rothermel, and minstrelsy) with less-studied subjects (soldiers and dance, epistolary songs). The collection as a whole sheds light on the role of race, class, and gender in the production and consumption of the arts for soldiers and civilians at this time; it also draws attention to the ways that art shaped - and was shaped by - veterans long after the war. 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xSocial aspects 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xInfluence 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y1783-1865 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 676 $a973.7/1 701 $aDavis$b James A$g(James Andrew),$f1962-$0905102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151715503321 996 $aThe arts and culture of the American Civil War$92024361 997 $aUNINA