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Rebecca Harding Davis’s Human Stories of the Civil War

Rebecca Harding Davis’s Human Stories of the Civil War Essa y .................... Rebecca Harding Davis’s Human Stories of the Civil War by Mark Canada As an author who lived with the Civil War at close hand, Rebecca Harding Davis not only “saw both sides” but also saw the sordidness of the war and of the men—and women—involved in it. A parlor window on Bollingbrook Street, Petersburg , Virginia, 1865, where a shell from the Union batteries struck, courtesy of the Library of Congress. 57 he decades leading up to the Civil War were fabulously rich ones for American literature—an “American Renaissance” in the words of literary scholar F. O. Matthiessen. During this era, some of the nation’s writers—notably Harriet Beecher Stowe,  T but also Henry David Thoreau and John Greenleaf Whittier— weighed in on the wedge that was driving North and South apart in works such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin and “Slavery in Massachusetts.” The war itself, however, in- spired no Iliad or Aeneid , at least not at the time it was going on. The closest thing to a classic literary account of the American Civil War is The Red Bad-ge of Cour age, written decades later by Stephen Crane, who had not even been born when http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Rebecca Harding Davis’s Human Stories of the Civil War

Southern Cultures , Volume 19 (3) – Aug 15, 2013

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University of North Carolina Press
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Essa y .................... Rebecca Harding Davis’s Human Stories of the Civil War by Mark Canada As an author who lived with the Civil War at close hand, Rebecca Harding Davis not only “saw both sides” but also saw the sordidness of the war and of the men—and women—involved in it. A parlor window on Bollingbrook Street, Petersburg , Virginia, 1865, where a shell from the Union batteries struck, courtesy of the Library of Congress. 57 he decades leading up to the Civil War were fabulously rich ones for American literature—an “American Renaissance” in the words of literary scholar F. O. Matthiessen. During this era, some of the nation’s writers—notably Harriet Beecher Stowe,  T but also Henry David Thoreau and John Greenleaf Whittier— weighed in on the wedge that was driving North and South apart in works such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin and “Slavery in Massachusetts.” The war itself, however, in- spired no Iliad or Aeneid , at least not at the time it was going on. The closest thing to a classic literary account of the American Civil War is The Red Bad-ge of Cour age, written decades later by Stephen Crane, who had not even been born when

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Aug 15, 2013

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