The Eloquent War: Personal and Public Writings from the Civil War by Bodden, Donna

The Eloquent War: Personal and Public Writings from the Civil War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781881089315)

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The Eloquent War: Personal and Public Writings from the Civil War by Bodden, Donna

The Eloquent War: Personal and Public Writings from the Civil War

$33.95
The Eloquent War: Personal and Public Writings from the Civil War by Bodden, Donna

The Eloquent War: Personal and Public Writings from the Civil War

$33.95
Format: Paperback
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The Civil War confronted all Americans with the weightiest moral and political issues since the American Revolution. In diaries and journals they argued and agonized with themselves; in sermons and speeches, in poems and love letters, they revealed to one another their own interior war. As they sought with words to hold their experiences steady for a moment, they sometimes achieved the eloquence that may evoke extraordinary times.

The 59 selections in this volume, written between 1860 and 1865, include such well-known writers as Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Melville, and Whitman, as well as the lesser-known, whose experience of war is immediate, unfiltered by memory. It is a picture of America, a literature that crosses all social borders, an integrated portrait of the Civil War as a national experience.

Author: Donna Bodden
ISBN-10: 1881089312
ISBN-13: 9781881089315
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 08/03/1999
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d
By Donna Bodden
By Donna Bodden
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Eleanor M. Lang is Professor Emerita of English at Southern Connecticut State University.

Donna Bodden is Professor Emerita at Southern Connecticut State University.

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