The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War - Softcover

Aaron, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817350020 ISBN 13: 9780817350024

Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2003

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Book by Aaron PhD Daniel

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"[This] is clearly [Aaron's] best book. His effort . . . Is scrupulous and backed by a thorough and unassuming scholarship."--New York Times

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Here, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers - major and minor - who treated the Civil War in their works. The author seeks to understand why this devastating and defining military conflict has failed to produce more literature of a notably high and lasting order, why there is still no ""masterpiece"" of Civil War fiction. In his portraits and analyses of 19th- and some 20th-century writers, Aaron distinguishes between those who dealt with war only marginally - Henry Adams, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain - and those few who sounded the war's tragic import - Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and William Faulkner. He explores the extent to which the war changed the direction of American literature and how deeply it entered the consciousness of American writers. Aaron also considers how writers, especially those from the South, discerned the war's moral and historical implications.

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• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0817350020
• ISBN 13: 9780817350024
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432