"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, includi…
A groundbreaking work of cultural history in which the author explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict: poems, songs, children's stories, romances, novels, histories, and even humorous pieces.
A collection of six stories from the anthology "Warriors" includes a Song of Fire and Ice novella by George R.R. Martin and contributions by such authors as Tad Williams, Robert Silverberg, and Joe Haldeman.
A collection of six stories from the anthology "Warriors" includes a Song of Fire and Ice novella by George R.R. Martin and contributions by such authors as Tad Williams, Robert Silverberg, and Joe Haldeman.
A fierce national outcry for righteously waging war has long dominated American culture. From at least the wildly popular Spanish-American War and the US military invasion of the Philippines that infuriated Mark Twain, right up to the current Global War on Terrorism, this is a d…
Based on recent conversations with Tim O'Brien, previously published interviews, and new readings of all his works -- including "Tomcat in Love" -- this book is the first study to concentrate on the role and representation of trauma as the central focus of all O'Brien's works. -…
A Trauma Artist examines how O'Brien's works variously rewrite his own traumatization during the war in Vietnam as a never-ending fiction that paradoxically "recovers" personal experience by both recapturing and (re)disguising it. Mark Heberle considers O'Brien's career as a wri…
