Visions of Glory (eBook)

The Civil War in Word and Image

Kathleen Diffley, Benjamin Fagan (Herausgeber)

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2019
University of Georgia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8203-5594-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, a census graph published in the New York Times, and a cutout of a child's hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the front. The essays in this collection reveal how wartime women and men created both written accounts and a visual register to make sense of this pivotal period.The collection proceeds chronologically, providing a nuanced history by highlighting the multiple meanings an assorted group of writers and readers discerned from the same set of circumstances. In so doing, this volume assembles contingent and fractured visions of the Civil War, but its differing perspectives also reveal a set of overlapping concerns. A number of essays focus in particular on African American engagements with visual culture. The collection also emphasizes the role that women played in making, disseminating, or interpreting wartime images. While every essay explores the relationship between image and word, several contributions focus on the ways in which Civil War images complicate an understanding of canonical writers such as Emerson, Melville, and Whitman.

Autor

Kathleen Diffley (Editor)
KATHLEEN DIFFLEY is professor emerita at the University of Iowa and director of the Civil War Caucus. She is the author of The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861-1876 (Georgia) and editor of Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894.

Benjamin Fagan (Editor)
BENJAMIN FAGAN is an associate professor of English at Auburn University. He is the author of The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation (Georgia). He is also the editor of the forthcoming African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2019
• Reihe/Serie: UnCivil Wars
• Reihe/Serie: UnCivil Wars Ser.
• Reihe/Serie: UnCivil Wars Ser.
• Co-Autor: James Berkey, Christopher Hager, Christopher Hanlon, Jeffrey Insko, Cody Marrs, Barbara McCaskill, Jane E. Schultz, Julia Stern, Timothy Sweet, Kristen Treen, Martin T. Buinicki, Jillian Spivey Caddell, Elizabeth Duquette, Eric Gardner, Sarah Gardner, Aston Gonzalez, Samuel Graber, Nathan Grant
• Zusatzinfo: 22 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: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: African Americans • Aston Gonzalez • Barbara McCaskill • Christopher Hager • Christopher Hanlon • civil war images • Cody Marrs • depictions of war • Elizabeth Duquette • Emerson • Eric Gardner • essay collection • History • image register • James Berkey • Jane E. Schultz • Jeffrey Insko • Jillian Spivey Caddell • Julia Stern • Kristen Treen • Melville • Nathan Grant • popular culture • Samuel Graber • Sarah Gardner • Slavery • Social Science • Timothy Sweet • U.S. Civil War Period • Whitman • women during wartime
• ISBN-10: 0-8203-5594-1 / 0820355941
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5594-8 / 9780820355948