Haunted by the Civil War – Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth–Century United

Name: Haunted by the Civil War – Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth–Century United
Brand: Princeton University Press

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How the legacy of the Civil War\u2014as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time\u2014has shaped American visions of democracyIn Haunted by the Civil War, Shirley Samuels explores the work of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and others to investigate the long cultural shadow of America\u2019s cataclysmic sundering. Juxtaposing these texts with images\u2014ranging from paintings by Winslow Homer to newspaper and magazine illustrations of political controversies\u2014Samuels argues that the Civil War still haunts our attitudes toward democracy. The recent toppling of Confederate monuments, the continuing protests over racial and sexual discrimination, immigration, and Indigenous land rights: each of these forms part of the war\u2019s legacy.\n\nHaunted by the Civil War \u2013 Cultural Testimony in the Nineteenth\u2013Century United States\nCultural Testimony in the Nineteenth-Century United States\nFree UK deliver;