Title: The Civil War dead and American modernity /
Authors: Finseth, Ian Frederick,
Year: 2018
Subjects: Collective memory United States History.; Popular culture United States History; Battle casualties; Collective memory; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Popular culture; War and literature; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General.; United States History Casualties.; United States History Influence.; United States History Literature and the war.; United States
Contents: The "ghastly spectacle": witnessing Civil War death -- Body images: the Civil War dead in visual culture -- Blood and ink: historicizing the Civil War dead -- Plotting mortality: the Civil War dead and the narrative imagination.