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The legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction remain a central part of American life a century and a half later. Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and genres of this period, including Walt Whitman, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis, Frederick Douglass, and Charles Chesnutt, as well as fiction, poetry, drama, and life-writing. Althoug...

The legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction remain a central part of American life a century and a half later. Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and genres of this period, including Walt Whitman, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis, Frederick Douglass, and Charles Chesnutt, as well as fiction, poetry, drama, and life-writing. Althoug...

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffley's trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction. While her first book of the trilogy, Where My Heart Is Turning Ever, charted the role of magazine fiction from the Northeast in "grounding the rites of citizenship" following the end of the Civil War, The Fateful Lightning traces the sectional conflicts in a postwar nation and how region shaped the political agendas of these postwar editoria...

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An examination of the defining role played by one woman writer who covered the South during reconstruction Anne E. Boyd Martin T. Buinicki Kathleen Diffley Annamaria Formichella Elsden Janet Gabler-Hover Caroline Gebhard Michael Germana Carolyn Hall Sharon Kennedy-Nolle John Lowe Geraldine Murphy Kevin E. O'Donnell John H. Pearson Timothy Sweet Anthony Szczesiul Cheryl B. Torsney In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became ...

In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida. This volume's sixteen essays are intent on illuminating, through her example, the neglected world of Reconstruction's backwaters in literary developments that were politically charged and genuinely unpredictable.

These 31 Civil War stories were culled from hundreds that circulated in popular magazines between 1861 and the celebration of the American centennial in 1876--a collective narrative about a domestic crisis that was still ongoing as the stories were written and published. 41 photos.

An anthology of Civil War stories from nineteenth-century magazines.