Traces of war: poetry, photography, and the crisis of the Union |
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Contents
Whitmans DrumTaps and the Rhetoric of War 1 | 11 |
The Real War Will Never Get in the Books | 46 |
Photography and the Scene of History | 78 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Traces of war: poetry, photography, and the crisis of the Union Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Parallax (Baltimore, Md.) |
| Author | Timothy Sweet |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Feb 29, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0801839599, 9780801839597 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › › American poetry American poetry/ 19th century/ History and criticism History / Military / General History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Literature and photography Literature and photography/ United States/ History/ 19th century Social Science / General United States War photography War poetry, American War poetry, American/ History and criticism |
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