{"product_id":"literary-cultures-of-the-civil-war-9780820357843","title":"Literary Cultures of the Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003eAddressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism. The Civil War reshaped existing literary cultures or enabled new ones. Ensembles of discourses, conventions, and practices, these cultures offered fresh ways of engaging a host of givens about American character and values that the war called into question. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe volume's contributors look at how literary cultures of the 1860s and 1870s engaged concepts of nation, violence, liberty, citizenship, community, and identity. At the same time, the essayists analyze the cultures themselves, which included Euroamerican and African American vernacular oral, manuscript (journals and letters), and print (newspapers, magazines, or books) cultures; overlapping discourses of politics, protest, domesticity, and sentiment; unsettled literary nationalism and emergent literary regionalism; and vernacular and elite aesthetic traditions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays point to the variety of literary voices that were speaking out in the war's immediate aftermath and help us understand what those voices were saying and how it was received.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTIMOTHY SWEET is the Eberly Family Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. He is the author of\u003ci\u003e American Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTraces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50859162665234,"sku":"9780820357843","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_366d8285-b0fd-4b89-899b-77edacc58c33.jpg?v=1737550660","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/literary-cultures-of-the-civil-war-9780820357843","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}