Twice-divided nation : national memory, transatlantic news, and American literature in the Civil War era

The Resource Twice-divided nation : national memory, transatlantic news, and American literature in the Civil War era

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Twice-divided nation : national memory, transatlantic news, and American literature in the Civil War era

Title remainder

national memory, transatlantic news, and American literature in the Civil War era

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Samuel Graber

Language

eng

Summary

Samuel Graber argues that before its civil war, the United States was twice divided: first, by the sectionalism that resulted from disagreements concerning slavery; and second, by Unionists' increasing sense of alienation from British definitions of nationalism. The key factor in these diverging national concepts of memory was the emergence of a fiercely independent press in the US and its connections to British news. The conflict between the Union and the Confederacy was regarded at home and abroad as a referendum not merely on Lincoln's election or the Constitution or even slavery, but on the nationalist claim to an independent past. Graber reveals how this movement toward cultural independence was reflected in a distinctively American literature, manifested in the writings of such diverse figures as journalist Horace Greeley and poet Walt Whitman. -- Back cover

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DLC

Dewey number

973.7/1

Index

index present

LC call number

E609

LC item number

.G725 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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