The Real war will never get in the books : selections from writers during the Civil War / / edited by Louis P. Masur

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.80358
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 19th century; American literature - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Literary collections; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
• Altri autori: MasurLouis P
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Henry Brooks Adams; Louisa May Alcott; Lydia Maria Child; John Esten Cooke; John William De Forest; Frederick Douglass; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Charlotte Forten; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Herman Melville; William Gilmore Simms; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Walt Whitman; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: ""These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) tried by terrible, fearfulest tests, probed deepest, the living soul's, the body's tragedies, bursting the petty bounds of art."" So wrote Walt Whitman in March of 1863, in a letter tellingfriends in
• Titolo autorizzato: The Real war will never get in the books
• ISBN: 0-19-992342-6; 1-4294-0153-2; 1-280-52815-X; 0-19-972686-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910958097303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II