Battle Lines : : Poetry and Mass Media in the U.S. Civil War / / Eliza Richards.
During the U.S. Civil War, a combination of innovative technologies and catastrophic events stimulated the development of news media into a central cultural force. Reacting to the dramatic increases in news reportage and circulation, poets responded to an urgent need to make their work immediately r...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 21 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. “How News Must Feel When Traveling”
- Chapter 1. “Strange Analogies” Weathering the War
- Chapter 2. The “Ghastly Harvest”
- Chapter 3. “To Signalize the Hour” Memorialization and the Massachusetts 54th
- Chapter 4. Poetry Under Siege Charleston Harbor’s Talking Guns
- Chapter 5. Poetry at Sea Naval Ballads and the Battle of Mobile Bay
- Epilogue Writing’s Wars Stephen Crane’s Poetry and the Postbellum Turn to the Page
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgements