Twice-divided nation : national memory, transatlantic news, and American literature in the Civil War era /

Graber, Samuel J.,

Twice-divided nation : national memory, transatlantic news, and American literature in the Civil War era / Samuel Graber. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Revival and revolution: the modes of modern memory. Memory for the masses: sacred history and the national press -- Enslaved to the past: Emerson and the spirit of antislavery news -- The news and Walt Whitman: poetry of the divine present -- War stories and memory circuits: hypernationalism and the transatlantic time lag. Palaces of memory: global information and the specter of catholicity -- Wars and rumors of wars: Kansas and the presentist crusade -- "Transatlantic latter-day poetry": nationalist anxiety and the memory circuits of Leaves of grass -- Conclusion.



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Collective memory--United States.


Electronic Books.

E609 / .T853 2019