In the history of the United States, the years following the Civil War symbolized a time of healing and rebuilding However, for those engaged in serious
Even after more than 140 years the American Civil War continues to serve as a major source of inspiration for a plethora of literature in various genres While
Most of the famous literature from after the Civil War is called Realism • These writers turned away from Romanticism The immense cost of life
Teaching Civil War Literature to International Students: to give the Civil War a purpose after the South surrendered in 1865, a purpose that was nowhere
3 The Transatlantic History of Civil War Literature 33 Christopher Hanlon 4 The “American Renaissance” after the American Civil War 48 Randall Fuller
American continent as a great blank canvas it was their manifest destiny to inscribe But after 1865, with the end of the Civil War, the death of over half
and William Dean Howells who in different fashions were to draw the developing realistic methods of Europe into American fiction Realism of subject-matter had
Teaching Civil War Literature to International Students: A Case Study Civil War a purpose after the South surrendered in 1865, a purpose that was nowhere
The buzz city of most interest for this study is New York, where as shall be seen there was and is a marked concentration of writers, particularly after the Civil War