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EBOOK "e;...the real war will never get in the books"e;:Selections from Writers During the C
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199939039
EAN: 71606C4CEB
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Stron: 320
Data wydania: 1994
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"e;These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands of American young men, badly        wounded, all sorts of wounds, operated on, pallid with diarrhea, languishing, dying        with fever, pneumonia, &c. open a new world somehow to me, giving closer        insights, new things, exploring deeper mines than any yet, showing our humanity, (I        sometimes put myself in fancy in the cot, with typhoid, or under the knife,) tried        by terrible, fearfulest tests, probed deepest, the living soul's, the body's        tragedies, bursting the petty bounds of art."e; So wrote Walt Whitman in March of        1863, in a letter telling friends in New York what he had witnessed in Washington's        war hospitals. In this, we see both a description of war's ravages and a major        artist's imaginative response to the horrors of war as it "e;bursts the petty bounds        of art."e;In "e;...the real war will never get in the books"e;, Louis Masur has brought        together fourteen of the most eloquent and articulate writers of the Civil War        period, including such major literary figures as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet        Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt        Whitman, Henry Adams, and Louisa May Alcott. Drawing on a wide range of material,        including diaries, letters, and essays, Masur captures the reactions of these        writers as the war was waged, providing a broad spectrum of views. Emerson, for        instance, sees the war "e;come as a frosty October, which shall restore intellectual        & moral power to these languid & dissipated populations."e;        African-American writer Charlotte Forten writes sadly of the slaughter at Fort        Wagner: "e;It seems very, very hard that the best and noblest must be the earliest        called away. Especially has it been so throughout this dreadful war."e; There are        writings by soldiers in combat. John Esten Cooke, a writer of popular        pre-Revolutionary romances serving as a Confederate soldier under J.E.B. Stuart,        describes Stonewall Jackson's uniform: "e;It was positively scorched by sun--had that        dingy hue, the product of sun and rain, and contact with the ground...but the men of        the old Stonewall Brigade loved that coat."e; And John De Forest, a Union officer,        describes facing a Confederate volley: "e;It was a long rattle like that which a boy        makes in running with a stick along a picket-fence, only vastly louder; and at the        same time the sharp, quiet whit-whit of bullets chippered close to our ears."e; And        along the way, we sample many vivid portraits of the era, perhaps the most        surprising of which is Louisa May Alcott's explanation of why she preferred her        noon-to-midnight schedule in a Washington hospital: "e;I like it as it leaves me time        for a morning run which is what I need to keep well....I trot up & down the        streets in all directions, some times to the Heights, then half way to Washington,        again to the hill over which the long trains of army wagons are constantly vanishing        & ambulances appearing. That way the fighting lies, & I long to        follow."e;With unmatched intimacy and immediacy, "e;...the real war will never get in        the books"e; illuminates the often painful intellectual and emotional efforts of        fourteen accomplished writers as they come to grips with "e;The American        Apocalypse."e;

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