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xi, 233 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Part 1: Writing the Civil War. Writing a battle: three versions of Chickamauga ; The Civil War in popular poetry: "God and right" ; Sir Walter Scott's legacy and the romance of the Civil War ; Herman Melville: "Battle shall no more be" ; John William De Forest: "The whole truth about war and battle" ; Walt Whitman: "That Hell unpent" ; The Civil War rewritten in the postwar decades -- Part 2: The changing ways of fighting and writing war. The rapid modernization of weaponry and warfare ; Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Monitor, and the morality of war ; War as experienced and imagined by Mark Twain ; The war novels of Stephen Crane, Joseph Kirkland, and Frank Stockton ; American writers at war: Cuba and the Philippines ; The pacifist ideology of William James and George Kirkpatrick. |
| Summary |
Until now, scholars have portrayed America's antiwar literature as an outgrowth of World War I, manifested in the works of writers such as Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. But in War No More, Cynthia Wachtell corrects the record by tracing the steady and inexorable rise of antiwar writing in American literature from the Civil War to the eve of World War I.-publisher description. |
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War in literature.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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War and literature -- United States -- History.
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Literature and the war.
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American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
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War and literature. (OCoLC)fst01170442
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War in literature. (OCoLC)fst01170505
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658 |
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1800-1999
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780807135624 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0807135623 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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