Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-260) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part I. Revival and revolution : the modes of modern memory. Memory for the masses : sacred history and the national press -- Enslaved to the past : Emerson and the spirit of antislavery news -- The news and Walt Whitman : poetry of the divine present -- Part II. War stories and memory circuits : hypernationalism and the transatlantic time lag. Palaces of memory : global information and the specter of catholicity -- Wars and rumors of wars : Kansas and the presentist crusade -- "Transatlantic latter-day poetry" : nationalist anxiety and the memory circuits of Leaves of grass -- Conclusion.
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