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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.

Nationalism and literature --- Nationalism in literature. --- Allegiance in literature. --- Loyalty in literature. --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- American literature --- Literature and nationalism --- Literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- United States --- Literature and the war. --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Allegiance in literature --- Nationalism in literature --- Civil War, 1861-1865 --- Literature and the war --- James, Henry --- Criticism and interpretation --- Chesnutt, Charles Waddell --- Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt --- Dunbar, Paul Laurence --- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart --- Page, Thomas Nelson --- Royce, Josiah

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"This volume collects twenty-two black & white images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the war. Focusing on images that range from a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, to a census graph published in the New York Times, to a cutout of a child's hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the front, the essays in this collection reveal how wartime women and men created both written accounts and a visual register to make sense of the world around them"--

United States --- History --- Press coverage. --- Biography