Unwritten War
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19th and 20 century writers
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american authors
american civil war
american fiction
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civil war
civil war fiction
civil war literature
confederacy
confederate states of America
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CSA
enslaved people
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fiction
Gettysburg
Henry Adams
Henry James
Herman Melville
historical record
history
imaginative literature
impact of war on literature
jefferson davis
journal writing
Mark Twain
military history
moral significance of Civil War
Nineteenth century
novel
people who wrote about Civil War
prose
secession
slavery
south
southern history
union
Walt Whitman
war between the states
war fiction
war history
war literature
white supremacy
William Dean Howells
William Faulkner
writers
writers from the South
writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780817350024
- Weight: 714g
- Dimensions: 153 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 2003
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Here, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers - major and minor - who treated the Civil War in their works. The author seeks to understand why this devastating and defining military conflict has failed to produce more literature of a notably high and lasting order, why there is still no ""masterpiece"" of Civil War fiction. In his portraits and analyses of 19th- and some 20th-century writers, Aaron distinguishes between those who dealt with war only marginally - Henry Adams, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mark Twain - and those few who sounded the war's tragic import - Herman Melville, Walt Whitman and William Faulkner. He explores the extent to which the war changed the direction of American literature and how deeply it entered the consciousness of American writers. Aaron also considers how writers, especially those from the South, discerned the war's moral and historical implications.
Daniel Aaron is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at Harvard University and founding president of the Library of America series of classic writings by American authors. He has written many books on American history and literature, including Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives and American Notes.
