By Randall Fuller

ISBN-10: 0195342305

ISBN-13: 9780195342307

ISBN-10: 0199360715

ISBN-13: 9780199360710

while accomplice troops fired on fortress Sumter in April of 1861, Walt Whitman declared it "the volcanic upheaval of the nation"--the bloody inception of a warfare that will dramatically regulate the form and personality of yankee tradition besides its political, racial, and social panorama. ahead of the conflict, America's best writers have been vital to aiding the younger state think itself, assert its ideals, and discover its huge capability. while the Civil struggle erupted, it compelled them to witness not just incredible human carnage at the battlefield, but in addition the disintegration of the foundational symbolic order that they had helped to create. The conflict demanded new frameworks for knowing the realm and new sorts of communique that can have interaction with the immensity of the clash. It fostered either social and cultural experimentation.

Now on hand in paperback, From Battlefields emerging explores the profound influence of the struggle on writers together with Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Frederick Douglass. because the writers of the time grappled with the war's effect at the person and the nationwide psyche, their responses extended and transmuted. Whitman's poetry and prose, for instance, used to be chastened and deepened by way of his years spent ministering to wounded squaddies; off the battlefield, the affliction of conflict may come to suffuse the austere, elliptical poems that Emily Dickinson used to be writing from afar; and Hawthorne used to be rendered silent by way of his studying of army studies and talks with squaddies. Calling into query each past presumption and perfect, the struggle eternally replaced America's early idealism-and as a result its literature-into whatever way more ambivalent and raw.

An soaking up workforce portrait of the period's most vital writers, From Battlefields Rising flashes with forgotten old information and chic new rules. It alters prior perceptions concerning the evolution of yankee literature and the way americans have understood and expressed their universal history.

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