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"This mighty convulsion" : Whitman and Melville write the Civil War / Christopher Sten & Tyler Hoffman, editors.
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- Book
- Series:
- Iowa Whitman series
- The Iowa Whitman series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Criticism and interpretation.
- Whitman, Walt.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892.
- History.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Poetry.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--In literature.
- Historical poetry, American.
- Civil war in literature.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 288 pages).
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Whitman and Melville write the Civil War
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction. "This mighty convulsion": Whitman and Melville write the Civil War / Christopher Sten and Tyler Hoffman
- The interplay of drum-taps and battle-pieces. "The foulest crime": Whitman, Melville, and the cultural life of a phrase / Ed Folsom
- Materiality in the Civil War poetry of Herman Melville and Walt Whitman / Vanessa Steinroetter
- Battle-pieces, drum-taps, and the aesthetic of aftermath in Civil War photography / Sarah L. Thwaites
- Reconciliation as sequel and supplement: drum-taps and battle-pieces / Peter J. Bellis
- Re-imagining drum taps. Whitman's disarming poetics: recuperating the language of the body in drum-taps / Kyle Barton
- Embodying the book: mourning for the masses in Walt Whitman's drum-taps / Adam Bradford
- Drum-taps and the chaos of war / Cody Marrs
- Re-imagining battle-pieces. Melville and the lord of hosts: holy war and divine warrior rhetoric in battle-pieces / Jonathan A. Cook
- "Nearer to us in nature": the US South and Herman Melville's literary lost cause / Timothy Marr
- Melville's historical imagination in "the house-top" / Christopher Ohge
- Melville's reconstructions: the "moorish maid" in "Lee in the Capitol" / Brian Yothers
- Drum-taps and battle-pieces brought together / Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and the American Civil War poetry anthology / Ian Faith
- List of American Civil War poetry anthologies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 19, 2019).
- Other Format:
- Print version: "This mighty convulsion"
- ISBN:
- 9781609386641
- 1609386647
- Publisher Number:
- 40029558143
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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