Belligerent Muse Five Northern Writers and How They Shaped Our Understanding of the Civil War / Stephen Cushman ; foreword by Gary W. Gallagher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cushman, Stephen, 1956-

Series:

Civil War America (Series)

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Historiography.

United States.

Chamberlain, Joshua Lawrence, 1828-1914--Influence.

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?--Influence.

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891--Influence.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Influence.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Influence.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2014

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

War destroys, but it also inspires, stimulates, and creates. It is, in this way, a muse, and a powerful one at that. The American Civil War was a particularly prolific muse--unleashing with its violent realities a torrent of language, from soldiers' intimate letters and diaries to everyday newspaper accounts, great speeches, and enduring literary works. In Belligerent Muse, Stephen Cushman considers the Civil War writings of five of the most significant and best known narrators of the conflict: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Ambrose Bierce, and Joshua Lawrence Chamber

Contents:

When Lincoln met Emerson, and the two addresses

Walt Whitman's real wars

Sherman the writer

Ambrose Bierce, Chickamauga, and ways to write history

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain repeats Appomattox.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908480-3-1

979-88-908480-4-8

1-4696-1879-6

1-4696-1878-8

OCLC:

890530850