Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War

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Hogarth, 1987 - American literature - 816 pages
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Relying heavily on primary sources, such as diaries and letters, Wilson presents the Civil War era in a more compelling fashion than many accounts that are more didactic or linked to preconceived ... Read full review

PATRIOTIC GORE: Studies In The Literature Of The American Civil War

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In this long and challenging book Edmund Wilson presents a critical analysis of the works of some 30 men and women, novelists, generals, poets; politicans, diarists, who saw the Civil War at first ... Read full review

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Harriet Beecher Stowe
3
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn
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Abraham Lincoln
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