Victorian America and the Civil War
By: Anne C. Rose.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
Description: "Victorian America and the Civil War examines the relationships between American Victorian culture and the Civil War. The author argues that at the heart of American Victorian culture was Romanticism, a secular quest to answer questions previously settled by traditional religion. In examining the biographies of seventy-five Americans who lived in the antebellum and Civil War eras, elements of disequilibrium, passion and intellectual excitement are explored in contrast to the traditional view of Victorian self-control and moral assurance. The Civil War is shown to be a central event in the cultural life of the American Victorians, which both was an environment for the resolution of their questions and a place where their values and aspirations could be reshaped."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-293) and index.