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"Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War - the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related compositions, including poems, songs, children's stories, romances, novels, histories, and even humorous pieces. Fahs mines these rich but long-neglected resources to recover the diversity of the war's political and social meanings.".
"Instead of narrowly portraying the Civil War as a clash between two great, white armies, popular literature offered a wide range of representations through which to consider the conflict, as Fahs demonstrates.
Works that explored the war's devastating impact on white women's lives, for example, proclaimed the importance of their experiences on the home front, while popular writings that celebrated black manhood and heroism in the wake of emancipation helped readers begin to imagine new roles for blacks in American life.
By providing subjects and characters with which a broad spectrum of people could identify, popular literature invited ordinary Americans to envision themselves as active participants in the war and helped shape new modes of imagining the relationships of diverse individuals to the nation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
2010, University of North Carolina Press
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Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
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The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
December 2, 2002, The University of North Carolina Press
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The imagined Civil War: popular literature of the North & South, 1861-1865
2001, University of North Carolina Press
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The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (Civil War America)
December 1, 2000, The University of North Carolina Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-391) and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--New York University.
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