Book contents
- American Literature in Transition, 1851–1877
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition
- American Literature in Transition, 1851–1877
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Careers
- Part II Networks
- Part III Exchanges
- Part IV The Long Civil War
- Chapter 17 The Coming Civil War
- Chapter 18 Union Literature
- Chapter 19 Confederate Literature
- Chapter 20 Reconstruction Literature
- Chapter 21 The Global Civil War
- Index
Chapter 18 - Union Literature
from Part IV - The Long Civil War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 June 2022
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Book contents
- American Literature in Transition, 1851–1877
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition
- American Literature in Transition, 1851–1877
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Series Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Careers
- Part II Networks
- Part III Exchanges
- Part IV The Long Civil War
- Chapter 17 The Coming Civil War
- Chapter 18 Union Literature
- Chapter 19 Confederate Literature
- Chapter 20 Reconstruction Literature
- Chapter 21 The Global Civil War
- Index
Summary
In September 1862, readers of the short-lived Continental Monthly might have encountered the following prediction by prominent editor and sometime politician Horace Greeley: The United States of the future will be no constrained alliance of discordant and mutually repellant [sic] commonwealths, but a true exemplification of “many in one” – many stars blended in one common flag – many States combined in one homogeneous Nation. Our Union will be one of bodies not merely, but of souls.1
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- American Literature in Transition, 1851–1877 , pp. 289 - 305Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022