& Quot;When Confederate Troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--The bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and soc…
This text considers the effects of the American Civil War on those writers and artists who helped their young nation imagine itself. Fuller shows how the war shaped and influenced poetic language and narrative during a time of full scale national crisis.
"From Battlefields Rising explores the profound impact of the war on writers including Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass. As the writers of the time grappled with the war's impact on the individual an…
When Confederate Troops fired on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--The bloody inception of a war that would dramatically alter the shape and character of American culture along with its political, racial, and social lan…
This text considers the effects of the American Civil War on those writers and artists who helped their young nation imagine itself. Fuller shows how the war shaped and influenced poetic language and narrative during a time of full scale national crisis.