"... the real war will never get in the books" : selections from writers during the Civil War

Drawing on a wide range of material, including diaries, letters, and essays, this book captures the reactions, as the American Civil War was waged, of writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry Adams, and...

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1. Verfasser: Masur, Louis P.
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1995
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Schlagworte:
19th century
American literature
American literature > 19th century
Authors, American
Authors, American > 19th century > Correspondence
Authors, American > 19th century > Diaries
Civil War and Reconstruction US History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Correspondence
Diaries
Early 19th Century US History
History
Intellectual History
Literary collections
United States
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literary collections
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
American Civil War
Frederick Douglass
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
diaries
Louisa May Alcott
Herman Melville
letters
Walt Whitman
ISBN:9780195098372, 0195098374
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Zusammenfassung:Drawing on a wide range of material, including diaries, letters, and essays, this book captures the reactions, as the American Civil War was waged, of writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Henry Adams, and Louisa May Alcott.
Bibliographie:"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1995"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and index
ISBN:9780195098372
0195098374
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195098372.001.0001