LEADER 03877nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910825346703321 005 20230725032615.0 010 $a1-283-38335-7 010 $a9786613383358 010 $a0-8135-5112-9 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813551128 035 $a(CKB)2670000000139849 035 $a(EBL)832042 035 $a(OCoLC)769927206 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000576006 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11330602 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000576006 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10554402 035 $a(PQKB)10318242 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC832042 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19692 035 $a(DE-B1597)530237 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813551128 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL832042 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10523603 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL338335 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000139849 100 $a20091102d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLoyal subjects$b[electronic resource] $ebonds of nation, race, and allegiance in nineteenth-century America /$fElizabeth Duquette 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 0 $aThe American Literatures Initiative 300 $a"American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso. 311 $a0-8135-4780-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Pledging Allegiance -- $t1 / Loyalty, Oaths, and the Nation -- $t2 / One Big Happy Family, Again? -- $t3 / Pledging Allegiance in Henry James -- $t4 / Loyalty?s Slaves -- $t5 / Philosophies of Loyalty -- $tAfterword -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aWhen 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. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aLoyalty in literature 606 $aAllegiance in literature 606 $aNationalism in literature 606 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xLiterature and the war 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aLoyalty in literature. 615 0$aAllegiance in literature. 615 0$aNationalism in literature. 615 0$aNationalism and literature$xHistory 676 $a810.9/358735 686 $a18.06$2bcl 700 $aDuquette$b Elizabeth$f1963-$01685649 712 02$aAmerican Literatures Initiative. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825346703321 996 $aLoyal subjects$94057938 997 $aUNINA