TY - BOOK ID - 77887059 TI - Loyal subjects : bonds of nation, race, and allegiance in nineteenth-century America AU - Duquette, Elizabeth AU - American Literatures Initiative. PY - 2010 SN - 1283383357 9786613383358 0813551129 9780813551128 9780813547817 0813547814 9780813547800 0813547806 PB - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism and literature KW - Nationalism in literature. KW - Allegiance in literature. KW - Loyalty in literature. KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - American literature KW - Literature and nationalism KW - Literature KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - United States KW - Literature and the war. KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - National characteristics [American ] in literature KW - Allegiance in literature KW - Nationalism in literature KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - Literature and the war KW - James, Henry KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Chesnutt, Charles Waddell KW - Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt KW - Dunbar, Paul Laurence KW - Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart KW - Page, Thomas Nelson KW - Royce, Josiah UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77887059 AB - When one nation becomes two, or when two nations become one, what does national affiliation mean or require? Elizabeth Duquette answers this question by demonstrating how loyalty was used during the U.S. Civil War to define proper allegiance to the Union. For Northerners during the war, and individuals throughout the nation after Appomattox, loyalty affected the construction of national identity, moral authority, and racial characteristics. Loyal Subjects considers how the Civil War complicated the cultural value of emotion, especially the ideal of sympathy. Through an analysis of literary works written during and after the conflict-from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Chiefly About War Matters" through Henry James's The Bostonians and Charles Chestnutt's "The Wife of His Youth," to the Pledge of Allegiance and W.E.B. Du Bois's John Brown, among many others-Duquette reveals that although American literary criticism has tended to dismiss the Civil War's impact, postwar literature was profoundly shaped by loyalty. ER -