To fight aloud is very brave American poetry and the Civil War / Faith Barrett.

Author/creator Barrett, Faith, 1965-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAmherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2012]
Descriptionxiii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Contents Introduction: the rhetoric of voice in Civil War poetry -- Shaping communities through popular song -- "We are here at our country's call": nationalist commitments and personal stances in Union and Confederate soldiers' poems -- The lyric I and the poetics of protest: Julia Ward Howe and Frances Harper -- Addresses to a divided nation: Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and the place of the lyric I -- Romantic visions and Southern stances: Henry Timrod, Sarah Piatt, and George Moses Horton -- "They answered him aloud": popular voice and nationalist allegiances in Herman Melville's battle-pieces -- Epilogue: Civil War poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-328) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2012030820
ISBN9781558499621 (library cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781558499638 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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