商品簡介
Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores the literary cultures of that unsettled moment when memory of the war had yet to be overwritten by later impulses of reunion, reconciliation, or Lost Cause revisionism.
作者簡介
Sweet is the Eberly Family Professor of American Literature at West Virginia University. He is the author ofAmerican Georgics: Economy and Environment in Early American Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) andTraces of War: Poetry, Photography, and the Crisis of the Union (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990).