LEADER 04574nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910810122803321 005 20240516002607.0 010 $a1-283-01848-9 010 $a9786613018489 010 $a0-19-971178-X 035 $a(CKB)2560000000071191 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25028563 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000469355 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12124204 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469355 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510163 035 $a(PQKB)11261000 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3054006 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3054006 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10449696 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL301848 035 $a(OCoLC)922970439 035 $a(OCoLC)660519162 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB165763 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000071191 100 $a20100322d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom battlefields rising $ehow the Civil War transformed American literature /$fRandall Fuller 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (x, 251 p. ) $cill 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-19-936071-5 311 $a0-19-534230-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-243) and index. 327 $aINTRODUCTION: EMERSON'S DREAM; 1. Beat! Beat! Drums; 2. . Concord; 3. Shiloh; 4. Telling it Slant; 5. Port Royal; 6. Fathers and Sons; 7. Phantom Limbs; 8. The Man without a Country; 9. In a Gloomy Wood; EPILOGUE. HEAVEN; END NOTES 330 $aThis text considers the effects of the American Civil War on those writers and artists who helped their young nation imagine itself. Fuller shows how the war shaped and influenced poetic language and narrative during a time of full scale national crisis. 330 $bThis book considers the effects of the American civil war on those writers and artists who helped their young nation imagine itself. the writers and artists of the early to mid-nineteenth century. One of the war's many traumas was the pain of witnessing the disintegration of a symbolic order they had helped construct in previous decades. If Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne and Melville grounded their writing on a coherent national myth, aimed at a familiar audience, the civil war challenged every prior presumption and called on the writers to confront novel exigencies with a suitable new style and form. Put another way, it forced them to engage anew with the language and symbols that had shaped America's previous conception of itself. As a result, poetry became more important for Emerson and Melville, while the prose form re-emerged in Whitman's undervalued Memoranda During the War. It energized the poetry of Emily Dickinson and seemed to silence Hawthorne, who could no longer organize romance amid the wartime reports he read and the military camps he visited. Fuller shows how the war shaped and influenced poetic language and narrative during a time of full scale national crisis. In so doing, his book takes up where very few literary historians have previously ventured. Seeking to change the way scholars and students read the late work of major writers such as Hawthorne, Emerson, and Melville, this study challenges easy conclusions and earlier notions about the differences between ante- and postbellum writing. It uncovers a host of continuities extending from the 'Romantic' to the 'Realist' periods of American writing while also revealing previously unseen ruptures and tensions within the work of individual writers. It offers a literary history from the era that forever changed America's early idealism into something rawer-and something more American-that set the stage for a new model of literary social engagement and experimentation. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNationalism in literature 606 $aWar and literature$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xLiterature and the war 607 $aUnited States$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 615 0$aWar and literature$xHistory 676 $a810.9358 686 $aHT 1520$2rvk 700 $aFuller$b Randall$f1963-$0475856 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810122803321 996 $aFrom battlefields rising$9242285 997 $aUNINA