Fateful Lightning (eBook)

Civil War Stories and the Literary Marketplace, 1861-1876

Kathleen Diffley (Autor)

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2021
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-5856-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffleys trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction. While her first book of the trilogy, Where My Heart Is Turning Ever, charted the role of magazine fiction from the Northeast in grounding the rites of citizenship following the end of the Civil War, The Fateful Lightning traces the sectional conflicts in a postwar nation and how region shaped the political agendas of these postwar editorials.Diffley argues that the journals she examines present stories that give unpredictable results of sectional conflict and commemorate the Civil War differently from the northeastern publishing establishments. She weaves this argument through her analysis of four literary journals: Baltimores Southern Magazine, Charlottes The Land We Love, Chicagos Lakeside Monthly, and San Franciscos Overland Monthly. Diffley uses a method of literary analysis that looks at what is not only present in the text but also present throughout its historically informed context, gleaning cultural meanings from what the stories also filter out. Coupling this literary analysis with city studies, Diffleys innovative approach demonstrates how these editorials offer varying gauges of continued political unrest, rising social opportunity, and conflicting commemorative investments as Reconstruction began to unfold.

Autor

KATHLEEN DIFFLEY is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa and director of the Civil War Caucus at the M/MLA. She is the author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861–1876 (both Georgia).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Print Culture in the South
• Reihe/Serie: Print Culture in the South Ser.
• Reihe/Serie: Print Culture in the South Ser.
• Zusatzinfo: 30 b&w images
• Verlagsort: Athens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Civil War Caucus • Historical Scholarship • Literary Culture • Literary History • Nineteenth Century America • Politics • reconstruction era • Reconstruction literature • Regional Politics • the south • University of Iowa • US Civil War studies • us history • US Postwar • US wartime
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-5856-8 / 0820358568
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5856-7 / 9780820358567