ISBN: 1466899638 9781466899636

Category: Literary Criticism / American / General

Page count: 954

<b>The classic study of literature from the Civil War, featuring critical profiles of notable figures who captured its grim reality and profound meaning.</b> <br> In his introduction to <i>Patriotic Gore</i>, Edmund Wilson asks, "Has there ever been another historical crisis of the magnitude of 1861–1865 in which so many people were so articulate?" Regarded by many as Wilson's greatest book, <i>Patriotic Gore</i> more than proves the point, brilliantly portraying the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans. <br> Figures discussed include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, among many others.