Where My Heart Is Turning Ever
Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876
Published on 15. November 2020
286 pages
978-0-8203-5886-4 (ISBN)
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Kathleen Diffley
Where My Heart Is Turning Ever
Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876
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11/2020
University of Georgia Press
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KATHLEEN DIFFLEY is professor emerita at the University of Iowa and director of the Civil War Caucus. She is the author of The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861-1876 (Georgia) and editor of Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894.
Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE Popular Narratives and Civil Crisis
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE Domestic Narrative and National Stability
- Mark Twain, ''A True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It
- One o' de ole Blue Hen's Chickens
- CHAPTER TWO The Romance of Union as National Metaphor
- John W De Forest, "Parole d'Honneur
- ''A Woman's Only Revenge
- CHAPTER THREE The Adventure of National Initiation
- Rebecca Harding Davis, "How the Widow Crossed the Lines
- Thunder on the Plank Road
- CODA From Uncle Tom to Uncle Remus and Beyond
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
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- W
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