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Loyal subjects : bonds of nation, race, and allegiance in nineteenth-century America / Elizabeth Duquette.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duquette, Elizabeth, 1963-
- Series:
- The American Literatures Initiative
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Loyalty in literature.
- Allegiance in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Nationalism and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Nationalism and literature.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature and the war.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When one nation becomes two, or when two nations become one, what does national affiliation mean or require? Elizabeth Duquette answers this question by demonstrating how loyalty was used during the U.S. Civil War to define proper allegiance to the Union. For Northerners during the war, and individuals throughout the nation after Appomattox, loyalty affected the construction of national identity, moral authority, and racial characteristics. Loyal Subjects considers how the Civil War complicated the cultural value of emotion, especially the ideal of sympathy. Through an analysis of literary works written during and after the conflict-from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Chiefly About War Matters" through Henry James's The Bostonians and Charles Chestnutt's "The Wife of His Youth," to the Pledge of Allegiance and W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown, among many others-Duquette reveals that although American literary criticism has tended to dismiss the Civil War's impact, postwar literature was profoundly shaped by loyalty.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pledging Allegiance
- 1 / Loyalty, Oaths, and the Nation
- 2 / One Big Happy Family, Again?
- 3 / Pledging Allegiance in Henry James
- 4 / Loyalty’s Slaves
- 5 / Philosophies of Loyalty
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- "American Literatures Initiative"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-38335-7
- 9786613383358
- 0-8135-5112-9
- OCLC:
- 769927206
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