The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 - 402 páginas
In "The Unwritten War," Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers--major and minor--who treated the Civil War in their works.

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THEY BREAK THE LINKS OF UNION I
1
The Wholesome Calamity
14
A PHILOSOPHICAL VIEW OF
39
The Parturition Years
56
The Conflict of Convictions
75
THE MALINGERERS
91
Henry James
106
William Dean Howells
121
THE WAR AT SECOND HAND
207
THE SOUTH ONLOOKERS
227
The Unwritten Novel
244
Sidney Lanier
263
George Washington Cable
272
The NeoConfederates
285
William Faulkner
310
Conclusion Such Was the War
327

Mark Twain
133
DRAWINGROOM WARRIORS AND COMBATANTS
147
John W De Forest
164
Ambrose Bierce
181
Albion W Tourgée
193
The War Prefigured
343
Lincoln and the Writers
349
A Further Note on the Collegians
353
Acknowledgments
387
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Daniel Baruch Aaron was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 4, 1912. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Michigan in 1933 and the first doctoral degree in American civilization from Harvard University. He taught English at Smith College for 30 years. During wartime shortages of manpower, he worked on a farm and as a volunteer police officer. In 1979, he co-founded the nonprofit Library of America. The company has published millions of copies of over 250 moderately priced novels, memoirs, narrative histories, forgotten masterpieces, and other classics. He wrote several books during his lifetime including Men of Good Hope: A Story of American Progressives, Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism, and The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War. His memoirs include The Americanist and Commonplace Book, 1934-2012. He condensed the 155 volume journal of failed poet and scion of Southern wealth Arthur Crew Inman into The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession. In 2010, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal as a scholar and as the founding president of the Library of America. He died from complications of pneumonia on April 30, 2016 at the age of 103.

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