Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (Civil War America)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B005GKZK8G
Publish date: January 22nd 2001
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Pages no: 425
Edition language: English
“The real war will never get in the books.” (Walt Whitman, 1882). Fahs says our division of texts into elite and “trash” is a way of “organizing cultural authority…that readers, writers, and publishers would not have recognized at the time.” It’s also interesting, how there were not only “shared ...