Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
by:
Edmund Wilson (author)
Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.Critical/biographical portraits of such notable ...
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Regarded by many critics as Edmund Wilson's greatest book, Patriotic Gore brilliantly portrays the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American history.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393312560 (0393312569)
ASIN: 0393312569
Publish date: 1994-09-17
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 848
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
War,
American History,
Military History,
Civil War
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