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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction

Kathleen Diffley editor Coleman Hutchison editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Aug '22

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This is an accessible, path-breaking, and carefully-curated Companion written by leading scholars of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twenty carefully-curated essays make cutting-edge scholarship available to diverse readers, while touting the ongoing relevance of this period and its literature to our contemporary moment.The legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction remain a central part of American life a century and a half later. Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and genres of this period, including Walt Whitman, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis, Frederick Douglass, and Charles Chesnutt, as well as fiction, poetry, drama, and life-writing. Although focused on literature, this Companion also canvases battlefields, homefronts, and hospitals, and discusses a range of topics, including constitutional reform and presidential impeachment; emancipation and Africa; material culture and monuments; education, civil rights, and reenactment. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction speaks powerfully to literature's ability to help readers come to terms with a violent, oppressive history while also imagining a different future.

ISBN: 9781009159197

Dimensions: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm

Weight: 540g

375 pages