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Author:

Wachtell, Cynthia, 1967-

Title:

War no more : the antiwar impulse in American literature, 1861-1914 / Cynthia Wachtell.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 233 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

War in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
War and literature--United States--History.
United States--Literature and the war.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 no more shall 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.

ISBN:

0807135623 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807135624 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)429227187

LCCN:

2009030239

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)