Literature And Humanitarian Reform In The Civil War Era

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Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era

Author : Gregory Eiselein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113122
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era written by Gregory Eiselein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... this volume presents a reasonable, fresh, and well-researched reading of several key texts in American studies." -- Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas During the Civil War, a crisis erupted in philanthropy that dramatically changed humanitarian theories and demanded new approaches to humanitarian work. Certain writer-activists began to advocate an "eccentric benevolence" -- a type of philanthropy that would undo the distinction between the powerful bestowers of benevolence and the weaker folks who receive it. Among the figures discussed are the anti-philanthropic Henry David Thoreau and the dangerously philanthropic John Brown.

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction

Author : Lacy Ford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444391623
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction written by Lacy Ford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars in the field. An authoritative volume that surveys the history and historiography of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction Analyzes the major sources and the most influential books and articles in the field Includes discussions on scholarly advances in U.S. Civil War history.

Emancipation and Equal Rights

Author : Herman Belz
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393090161
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Emancipation and Equal Rights written by Herman Belz and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Civil War America

Author : Maggi M. Morehouse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136211829
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Civil War America written by Maggi M. Morehouse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As war raged on the battlefields of the Civil War, men and women all over the nation continued their daily routines. They celebrated holidays, ran households, wrote letters, read newspapers, joined unions, attended plays, and graduated from high school and college. Civil War America reveals how Americans, both Northern and Southern, lived during the Civil War—the ways they worked, expressed themselves artistically, organized their family lives, treated illness, and worshipped. Written by specialists, the chapters in this book cover the war’s impact on the economy, the role of the federal government, labor, welfare and reform efforts, the Indian nations, universities, healthcare and medicine, news coverage, photography, and a host of other topics that flesh out the lives of ordinary Americans who just happened to be living through the biggest conflict in American history. Along with the original material presented in the book chapters, the website accompanying the book is a treasure trove of primary sources, both textual and visual, keyed for each chapter topic. Civil War America and its companion website uncover seismic shifts in the cultural and social landscape of the United States, providing the perfect addition to any course on the Civil War.

Beyond the Civil War Hospital

Author : Kirsten Twelbeck
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839434653
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Civil War Hospital written by Kirsten Twelbeck and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's »mental adaptation process« (Leslie Butler), Kirsten Twelbeck diagnoses individual conflicts between the »heart and the brain« only partly compensated for by a shared concern for national healing. By tracing each text's unique adaptation of the healing trope, she identifies surprising disagreement over racial equality, women's rights, and citizenship. The book pairs female and male white authors from the antislavery North, and brings together a broad range of genres.

Questionable Charity

Author : William M. Morgan
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584653882
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Questionable Charity written by William M. Morgan and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating reevaluation of U.S. literary realism during the Gilded Age.

The American Civil War

Author : Ian Frederick Finseth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415977444
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The American Civil War written by Ian Frederick Finseth and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together a wide variety of both well-known and more obscure writing from and about the Civil War, along with supplementary appendices to facilitate its use in courses. The selections include short fiction, poetry, public addresses, diary entries, song lyrics, and essays from such figures as Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, and Louisa May Alcott, as well as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant. The writing not only includes those directly involved in the war, but also those writing about the war afterward, to include the perspective of historical memory. This collection makes a perfect addition to any course on Civil War history or literature as well as courses on popular memory.

Historical Dictionary of the Civil War

Author : Terry L. Jones
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810878119
Total Pages : 1818 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Civil War written by Terry L. Jones and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War was the most traumatic event in American history, pitting Americans against one another, rending the national fabric, leaving death and devastation in its wake, and instilling an anger that has not entirely dissipated even to this day, 150 years later. This updated and expanded two-volume second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Civil War relates the history of this war through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on persons, places, events, institutions, battles, and campaigns. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Civil War.

Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era

Author : Vanessa Holloway
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761870369
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Black Rights in the Reconstruction Era written by Vanessa Holloway and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book systematically goes through the post-Civil War laws; discuss their origins, meanings, and court interpretations; and integrates them into a historical narrative to highlight the legal and constitutional issues involving Reconstruction and the black experience and the problems of federalism, states’ rights, and civil rights.

Against the Gallows

Author : Paul Christian Jones
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380495
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Against the Gallows written by Paul Christian Jones and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Against the Gallows, Paul Christian Jones explores the intriguing cooperation of America’s writers—including major figures such as Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, E. D. E. N. Southworth, and Herman Melville—with reformers, politicians, clergymen, and periodical editors who attempted to end the practice of capital punishment in the United States during the 1840s and 1850s. In an age of passionate reform efforts, the antigallows movement enjoyed broad popularity, waging its campaign in legislatures, pulpits, newspapers, and literary journals. Although it failed in its ultimate goal of ending hangings across the United States, the movement did achieve various improvements in the practices of the justice system, including reducing the number of capital crimes, eliminating public executions in most northern states, and abolishing capital punishment completely in three states. Although a few historians have studied the antebellum movement against capital punishment, until now very little attention has been paid to the role of America’s writers in these efforts. Jones’s study recovers the relationship between the nation’s literary figures and the movement against the death penalty, illustrating that the editors of literary journals actively encouraged and published antigallows writing, that popular crime novelists created a sympathy toward criminals that led readers to question the state’s justifications for capital punishment, that poets crafted verse that advocated strongly for Christian sympathy for criminals that coincided with an antipathy to the death penalty, and that female sentimental writers fashioned melodramatic narratives that illustrated the injustice of the hanging and reimagined the justice system itself as a sympathetic subject capable of incorporating compassion into its workings and seeing reform rather than revenge as its ends.

Loyal Subjects

Author : Elizabeth Duquette
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547806
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Loyal Subjects written by Elizabeth Duquette and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyal Subjects considers how the Civil War complicated the cultural value of emotion, especially the ideal of sympathy.

Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel

Author : Roberta S. Trites
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297701
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel written by Roberta S. Trites and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trites argues that Twain and Alcott wrote on similar topics because they were so deeply affected by the Civil War, by cataclysmic emotional and financial losses in their families, by their cultural immersion in the tenets of Protestant philosophy, and by sexual tensions that may have stimulated their interest in writing for adolescents, Trites demonstrates how the authors participated in a cultural dynamic that marked the changing nature of adolescence in America, provoking a literary sentiment that continues to inform young adult literature. Both intuited that the transitory nature of adolescence makes it ripe for expression about human potential for change and reform.

"This Mighty Convulsion"

Author : Christopher Sten
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609386647
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book "This Mighty Convulsion" written by Christopher Sten and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book exclusively devoted to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville, arguably the most important poets of the war. The essays brought together in this volume add significantly to recent critical appreciation of the skill and sophistication of these poets; growing recognition of the complexity of their views of the war; and heightened appreciation for the anxieties they harbored about its aftermath. Both in the ways they come together and seem mutually influenced, and in the ways they disagree, Whitman and Melville grapple with the casualties, complications, and anxieties of the war while highlighting its irresolution. This collection makes clear that rather than simply and straightforwardly memorializing the events of the war, the poetry of Whitman and Melville weighs carefully all sorts of vexing questions and considerations, even as it engages a cultural politics that is never pat. Contributors: Kyle Barton, Peter Bellis, Adam Bradford, Jonathan A. Cook, Ian Faith, Ed Folsom, Timothy Marr, Cody Marrs, Christopher Ohge, Vanessa Steinroetter, Sarah L. Thwaites, Brian Yothers

Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature

Author : Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113664637X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature written by Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can literary theory reveal about discourses and practices of human rights, and how can human rights frameworks help to make sense of literature? How have human rights concerns shaped the literary marketplace, and how can literature impact human rights concerns? Essays in this volume theorize how both literature and reading literarily can shape understanding of human rights in productive ways. Contributors to Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature provide a shared history of modern literature and rights; theorize how trauma, ethics, subjectivity, and witnessing shape representations of human rights violations and claims in literary texts across a range of genres (including poetry, the novel, graphic narrative, short story, testimonial, and religious fables); and consider a range of civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights and their representations. The authors reflect on the imperial and colonial histories of human rights as well as the cynical mobilization of human rights discourses in the name of war, violence, and repression; at the same time, they take seriously Gayatri Spivak’s exhortation that human rights is something that we "cannot not want," exploring the central function of storytelling at the heart of all human rights claims, discourses, and policies.

Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870

Author : Daneen Wardrop
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609383680
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863-1870 written by Daneen Wardrop and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863–1870, examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, ranging from the well-known Louisa May Alcott to lesser-known figures such as Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hospitals of Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, to the field at Gettysburg in the aftermath of the battle, to the camps bordering front lines during active combat, these nurse narrators reported on what they saw and experienced for an American audience hungry for tales of individual experience in the war. As a subgenre of war literature, the Civil War nurse narrative offered realistic reportage of medical experiences and declined to engage with military strategies or Congressional politics. Instead, nurse narrators chronicled the details of attending wounded soldiers in the hospital, where a kind of microcosm of US democracy-in-progress emerged. As the war reshaped the social and political ideologies of the republic, nurses labored in a workplace that reflected cultural changes in ideas about gender, race, and class. Through interactions with surgeons and other officials they tested women’s rights convictions, and through interactions with formerly enslaved workers they wrestled with the need to live up to their own often abolitionist convictions and support social equality. By putting these accounts in conversation with each other, Civil War Nurse Narratives productively explores a developing genre of war literature that has rarely been given its due and that offers refreshing insights into women’s contributions to the war effort. Taken together, these stories offer an impressive and important addition to the literary history of the Civil War.

"The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up"

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609387465
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book "The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up" written by Walt Whitman and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to offer a comprehensive selection of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry and prose with a full commentary on each work. Ed Folsom and Christopher Merrill carry on a dialogue with Whitman (and with each other) as they invite readers to trace how Whitman’s writing about the Civil War develops, shifts, and manifests itself in different genres throughout the years of the war. The book offers forty selections of Whitman’s war writings, including not only the well-known war poems but also his prose and personal letters. Each are followed by Folsom’s critical examination and then by Merrill’s afterword, suggesting broader contexts for thinking about the selection. The real democratic reader, Whitman said, “must himself or herself construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay—the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start or frame-work,” because what is needed for democracy to flourish is “a nation of supple and athletic minds.” Folsom and Merrill model this kind of active reading and encourage both seasoned and new readers of Whitman’s war writings to enter into the challenging and exhilarating mode of talking back to Whitman, arguing with him, and learning from him.

Wounded Hearts

Author : Jennifer Travis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807877029
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Wounded Hearts written by Jennifer Travis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary study of emotion is part of an important revisionary movement among scholars eager to recast emotional politics for the twenty-first century. Looking beyond the traditional categories of sentiment, sensibility, and sympathy, Jennifer Travis suggests a new approach to reading emotionalism among men. She argues that the vocabulary of injury, with its evaluations of victimhood and its assessments of harm, has deeply influenced the cultural history of emotions. From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Travis traces the history of male emotionalism in American discourse. She argues that injury became a comfortable vocabulary--particularly among white middle-class men--through which to articulate and to claim a range of emotional wounds. The debates about injury that flourished in the cultural arenas of medicine, psychology, and the law spilled over into the realm of fiction, as Travis demonstrates through readings of works by Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Travis concludes by linking this history to twenty-first-century preoccupations with "pain-centered politics," which, she cautions, too often focuses only on women and racial minorities.