The Imagined Civil War
Subtitle: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (Civil War America)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780807825815
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Literary studies: 19th century; War and literature; c 1800 to c 1900; History; 19th Century American Literature; Literature And Society; Southern States; Literature - Classics / Criticism; American English; English; Literary Criticism; USA; History and criticism; American - General; Books & Reading; United States - Civil War; American cultural history; literary history; popular War literature; Civil War; North and South; feminized war literature; sensational war novels; war poetry; children's war literature; war histories; war humor; war songs; sentimental war literature; economy; Union; Confederacy; racial; gender; popular culture; women; African-Americans; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; United States; Popular literature; 19th century; American literature; Civil War, 1861-1865; Literature and the war
First sentence: "Men cannot think, or write, or attend to their ordinary business," Oliver Wendell Holmes reported from Boston in the fall of 1861.