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Visions of Glory : The Civil War in Word and Image.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Diffley, Kathleen.
- Series:
- UnCivil Wars Series
- UnCivil Wars
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Maps.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Press coverage.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "This volume collects twenty-two black & white images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the war. Focusing on images that range from a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, to a census graph published in the New York Times, to a cutout of a child's hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the front, the essays in this collection reveal how wartime women and men created both written accounts and a visual register to make sense of the world around them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Witnessing the "blind ruck of event" / Kathleen Diffley and Benjamin Fagan
- Looking out upon the boundless sea of the future; or, Anticipation / Jeffrey Insko
- After Sumter: the surge of war and periodical outcry / Kathleen Diffley
- William and Ellen Craft, the Georgia fugitives, and the war's uncertain outcomes / Barbara McCaskill
- The latest fake news from 1861 / Christopher Hanlon
- Mourning in ballad and requiem / Timothy Sweet
- Stealing freedom : Robert Smalls and modeling citizenship / Aston Gonzalez
- "Companion ... to the pending struggle" : 1862's "marking maps" and the Civil War spatial imaginary / Jillian Spivey Caddell
- The shadow of the times : Napoleon in 1862 / Elizabeth Duquette
- Emancipation illustrated / Benjamin Fagan
- Sketches from the trenches : image and invention in Alcott's hospital sketches / Jane E. Schultz
- Never set in stone : the commemorative image of Stonewall Jackson as a transatlantic hero / Samuel Graber
- "Molly" : uncaptioned / Julia Stern
- What comes to hand : archives of exigency, 1864 / Christopher Hager
- Printed with a "steal penn" : handwriting the nation in Civil War prison newspapers / James Berkey
- Reading, infirmity, and suicide / Sarah E. Gardner
- Unraveling Confederate sentiment : the unfinished story of a sock / Kristen Treen
- Far away, yet still so close : Lincoln, memory, the Black West, and the mission of the war / Eric Gardner
- The architecture of transnational contingencies : Julia Collins's The curse of caste and the legend of the Lindaraja Mirador / Nathan L. Grant
- Lincoln's rocking chair and the unstable signs of history / Martin T. Buinicki
- 1866 and after : Melville, Jane Jackson, and the literature of emancipation / Cody Marrs
- Afterimage / Benjamin Fagan and Kathleen Diffley.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8203-5594-1
- OCLC:
- 1127052529
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