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Author:

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Title:

Patriotic gore : studies in the literature of the American Civil War / by Edmund Wilson.

Edition:

Norton pbk. ed.

Publisher:

Norton,

Copyright Date:

1994

Description:

xxxii, 816 p. ; 19 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
War in literature.
United States--Literature and the war.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.
United States--Intellectual life--19th century.

Notes:

Previously published: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1962. Includes index.

Contents:

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Calvin Stowe; Francis Grierson; The battle hymn of the republic; The union as religious mysticism -- Abraham Lincoln -- Northern soldiers: Ulysses S. Grant -- Northern soldiers: William T. Sherman -- Northerners in the South: Frederick L. Olmsted, John T. Trowbridge -- Northerners in the South: Charlotte Forten and Colonel Higginson -- Three Confederate ladies: Kate Stone, Sarah Morgan, Mary Chesnut -- Southern soldiers: Richard Taylor, John S. Mosby, Robert E. Lee -- Diversity of opinion in the South: William J. Grayson, George Fitzhugh, Hilton R. Helper -- Alexander H. Stephens -- The myth of the old South; Sidney Lanier; Poetry of the Civil War; Sut Lovingood -- Novelists of the post-war South: Albion Tourgée, George W. Cable, Kate Chopin, Thomas Nelson -- Ambrose Bierce on the Owl Creek Bridge -- The chastening of American prose style; John W. De Forest -- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

ISBN:

9780393312560
0393312569

OCLC:

(OCoLC)31610580

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)