Name: to live and die: collected stories of the civil war, 1861-1876 (en Inglés)
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Author: Diffley, Kathleen
ISBN: 9780822334392

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Formato

Libro Físico

Ilustrado por

Kathleen Diffley

Editorial

Duke University Press

Autor

Diffley, Kathleen

Año

2002

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

448

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 14.4 x 2.9 cm

Peso

0.64 kg.

ISBN

0822334399

ISBN13

9780822334392

Categorías

Antologías
Ficción literaria

to live and die: collected stories of the civil war, 1861-1876 (en Inglés)

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Even before the first cannonballs were fired at Fort Sumter, American writers were trying to make creative sense of the War Between the States. These thirty-one stories were culled from hundreds that circulated in popular magazines between 1861 and the celebration of the American centennial in 1876. Arranged to echo the sequence of the unfolding drama of the war and Reconstruction, together these short stories constitute an "inadvertent novel," a collective narrative about a domestic crisis that was still ongoing as the stories were being written and published.The authors, who include Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain, depict the horrors of the battlefield, the suffering in prison camps and field hospitals, and the privations of the home front. In these pages, bushwhackers carry the war to out-of-the-way homesteads, spies work households from the inside, journeying paymasters rely on the kindness of border women, and soldiers turn out to be girls. The stories are populated with nurses, officers, speculators, preachers, slaves, and black troops, and they take place in cities, along the frontier, and on battlefields from Shiloh to Gettysburg.The book opens with a prewar vigilante attack on the Underground Railroad and a Kansas parson in Henry King's "The Cabin at Pharoah's Ford" and concludes with an ex-slave recalling the loss of her remaining son in Twain's "A True Story." In between are stories written by both women and men that were published in magazines from the South and West as well as the culturally dominant Northeast. Wartime wood engravings highlight the text. Kathleen Diffley's introduction provides literary and historical background, and her commentary introduces readers to magazine authors as well as the deepening disruptions of a country at war. Just as they did for nineteenth-century readers, these stories will bring the war home to contemporary readers, giving shape to a crisis that rocked the nation then and continues to haunt it now.

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