The Written Wars: American War Prose Through the Civil WarAn anthology of war experiences explores early U.S. conflicts, from the Colonial period, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Mexican War, to the Civil War. |
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American War Prose Through the Civil War Joseph T. Cox. myth of Puritan exceptionalism and New World interpretations of millennial- ism to shape a prisoner's tortured realities . The narrative expectations created by war prose can even ...
American War Prose Through the Civil War Joseph T. Cox. myth of Puritan exceptionalism and New World interpretations of millennial- ism to shape a prisoner's tortured realities . The narrative expectations created by war prose can even ...
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... America's history , war unsupported by religion , millennial myth , or transcendent cause was , to poet James Russell Lowell's average American soldier - farmer , Hosea Biglow , " Murder , -There you hev it plain an ' flat . " To ...
... America's history , war unsupported by religion , millennial myth , or transcendent cause was , to poet James Russell Lowell's average American soldier - farmer , Hosea Biglow , " Murder , -There you hev it plain an ' flat . " To ...
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American War Prose Through the Civil War Joseph T. Cox. Page , Thomas Nelson . " Marse Chan . " In In Ole Virginia . New York : Macmillan , 1887. 1-38 . Pickering , James H. , ed . The World Turned Upside Down : Prose and Poetry of the ...
American War Prose Through the Civil War Joseph T. Cox. Page , Thomas Nelson . " Marse Chan . " In In Ole Virginia . New York : Macmillan , 1887. 1-38 . Pickering , James H. , ed . The World Turned Upside Down : Prose and Poetry of the ...
Contents
The Colonial Period | 1 |
True Travels and General Historie of Virginia | 7 |
A Thankful Remembrance of Gods Mercy to Several | 21 |
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Daily Life in the Early American Republic, 1790-1820: Creating a New Nation David S. Heidler,Jeanne T. Heidler No preview available - 2004 |