The Civil War Dead and American Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780190848347 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 296 str.

Ian Finseth

Opis

The Civil War Dead and American Modernity offers a fundamental rethinking of the cultural importance of the American Civil War dead.

Recenzje

The Civil War Dead and American Modernity, as a rumination on the nature of modern culture, is a critical commentary on the strategies modern societies (the United States in particular) use to forge a sense of self.

O autorze

Ian Finseth is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of North Texas. His scholarly work focuses on the literary history of transatlantic slavery, abolitionism, and the American Civil War. Dr. Finseth was born in Boston, grew up in California, and earned degrees from UC Berkeley (B.A.), the University of Virginia (M.A.), and UNC-Chapel Hill (Ph.D.)