Facing America
Iconography and the Civil War
Published on 5. February 2004
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-19-512897-0 (ISBN)
Description
Facing America investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. Drawing on the literature as well as the photographs and political cartoons of the period, Shirley Samuels also explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine.
Reviews / Votes
A study of Civil War iconography is long overdue.... Samuels offers a fertile reading of that symbol system and its slippages. Examining texts of all types--novels, statues, and images--she lays bare the preoccupying anxieties.... Samuels has an intriguing mind, and it is a pleasure to watch it work. Text after text, subhead after subhead, she offers compelling readings and telling juxtapositions of familiar and unfamiliar documents. * American Historical Review *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
26 Fotos bzw. Rasterbilder
26 halftones
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
448 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-512897-0 (9780195128970)
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