Visions of Glory
Kathleen Diffley (Redaktør) Benjamin Fagan (Redaktør) James Berkey (Innledning) Jillian Spivey Caddell (Innledning) Elizabeth Duquette (Innledning) Eric Scott Gardner (Innledning) Sarah Gardner (Innledning) Samuel Graber (Innledning) Christopher Hager (Innledning) Barbara McCaskill (Innledning) Jane E. Schultz (Innledning) Timothy Sweet (Innledning) Aston Gonzalez (Innledning) Nathan Grant (Innledning) Christopher Hanlon (Innledning)
Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, a census graph published in the New York Times, and a cutout of a child's hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the front. Les mer
The collection proceeds chronologically, providing a nuanced history by highlighting the multiple meanings an assorted group of writers and readers discerned from the same set of circumstances. In so doing, this volume assembles contingent and fractured visions of the Civil War, but its differing perspectives also reveal a set of overlapping concerns. A number of essays focus in particular on African American engagements with visual culture. The collection also emphasizes the role that women played in making, disseminating, or interpreting wartime images. While every essay explores the relationship between image and word, several contributions focus on the ways in which Civil War images complicate an understanding of canonical writers such as Emerson, Melville, and Whitman.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Georgia Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780820355931
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019