Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors to Volume III
- Note on the Text
- Part I Values
- Part II Social Experience
- Part III Outcomes
- 14 Making Peace
- 15 Reconstruction during the Civil War
- 16 Veterans and the Postwar World
- 17 The Civil War and the American State
- 18 The Civil War and American Law
- 19 The Civil War in Visual Art
- 20 The Civil War in American Thought
- 21 The Civil War in Literary Memory
- 22 The Civil War in Film
- 23 The Civil War in Public Memory
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
21 - The Civil War in Literary Memory
from Part III - Outcomes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2019
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors to Volume III
- Note on the Text
- Part I Values
- Part II Social Experience
- Part III Outcomes
- 14 Making Peace
- 15 Reconstruction during the Civil War
- 16 Veterans and the Postwar World
- 17 The Civil War and the American State
- 18 The Civil War and American Law
- 19 The Civil War in Visual Art
- 20 The Civil War in American Thought
- 21 The Civil War in Literary Memory
- 22 The Civil War in Film
- 23 The Civil War in Public Memory
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
The first of these themes (the accurate depiction of war) brings together research on a series of writers who attempted to describe the battles of the Civil War in their fiction such as Ambrose Bierce, John Esten Cooke, Herman Melville, and Frances E. W. Harper. The second (the social construction of gender norms) involves the analysis of narratives that depict shifting gender roles during the conflict such as Augusta Jane Evan’s novel Macaria and Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches, a book which provides an excellent opportunity for discussing the relation of nonfiction genres such as memoir to literary forms.
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- The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 439 - 459Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019