The Eloquent War: Personal and Public Writings from the Civil War

ISBN-13: 9781881089315 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 160 str.

Donna Bodden; Eleanor R. Lang; Ben Rader

Opis

The Civil War confronted all Americans with the weightiest moral and political issues since the American Revolution. In diaries and journals they argued and agonized with themselves; in sermons and speeches, in poems and love letters, they revealed to one another their own interior war. As they sought with words to hold their experiences steady for a moment, they sometimes achieved the eloquence that may evoke extraordinary times.

The 59 selections in this volume, written between 1860 and 1865, include such well-known writers as Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Melville, and Whitman, as well as the lesser-known, whose experience of war is immediate, unfiltered by memory. It is a picture of America, a literature that crosses all social borders, an integrated portrait of the Civil War as a national experience.

Spis treści

Part I: 1860–1861.

Part II: 1862.

Part III: 1863.

Part IIII: 1864–1865.

Bibliography.

Index.

O autorze

Eleanor M. Lang is Professor Emerita of English at Southern Connecticut State University.

Donna Bodden is Professor Emerita at Southern Connecticut State University.