{"product_id":"fateful-lightning-kathleen-diffley-9780820360652","title":"The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861-1876","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fateful Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e is the second volume of Kathleen Diffley's trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction. While her first book of the trilogy, \u003ci\u003eWhere My Heart Is Turning Ever\u003c\/i\u003e, charted the role of magazine fiction from the Northeast in \"grounding the rites of citizenship\" following the end of the Civil War, \u003ci\u003e The Fateful Lightning\u003c\/i\u003e traces the sectional conflicts in a postwar nation and how region shaped the political agendas of these postwar editorials. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDiffley 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: Baltimore's \u003ci\u003eSouthern Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Charlotte's\u003ci\u003e The Land We Love\u003c\/i\u003e, Chicago's \u003ci\u003eLakeside Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and San Francisco's \u003ci\u003eOverland Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, Diffley's 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Diffley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820360651\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820360652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Kathleen Diffley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43993071780095,"sku":"9780820360652","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1daab878-cd8a-4573-9d58-e6a583c19b86.jpg?v=1683322367","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fateful-lightning-kathleen-diffley-9780820360652","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}