Introduction: Emerson's Dream
1. Beat! Beat! Drums
2. Concord
3. Shiloh
4. Telling it Slant
5. Port Royal
6. Fathers and Sons
7. Phantom Limbs
8. The Man without a Country
9. In a Gloomy Wood
Epilogue. Heaven
End Notes
Randall Fuller is the Chapman Professor of English at the University of Tulsa.
"When the volcano of Civil War erupted in 1861, American literature
had already achieved maturity in the writings of Emerson, Melville,
Whitman, Hawthorne, and others. All of them, plus new voices like
Emily Dickinson, tried to understand and express the profound
meaning of the war in their writings, which Randall Fuller
skillfully dissects in this original and incisive volume."--James
M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
"In this lucid and insightful work, Randall Fuller probes the
creative and intellectual responses of some of the nation's
greatest writers to the Civil War. The result is a luminous and
revealing portrait of American literary culture in a period of
volcanic eruption."--Louis P. Masur, author of The Civil War: A
Concise History
"This is a beautiful, powerful book, uniting the pivotal event of
American history with the defining literature of the nation.
Fuller's account is filled with humanity, eloquence, and surprise.
Anyone who reads this book will see both the Civil War and
America's iconic authors with new eyes."--Edward Ayers, author of
In The Presence of Mine Enemies
"Fuller's book is a moving excursion through the writers who found
their language altered by the convulsions of the American Civil
War. From Alcott to Emerson, Dickinson to Douglass, Melville to
Hawthorne, Fuller traces connections both familiar and strange,
granting careful attention to new literary configurations in the
wake of war."--Shirley Samuels, author of Facing America:
Iconography and the Civil War
"Highly recommended."--Library Journal
"A fresh and fascinating look not only at Melville, Emerson,
Whitman, and Hawthorne but at lesser lights and the loyalties that
drove them...It should stand high on any must-read list of books,
old or new, as we move into the Civil War anniversary years."--The
Weekly Standard
"When it comes to the Civil War, there's no poem or novel or even
author who leaves us saying: This is the one who got it right, who
captured what the war meant and what it felt like. Now one scholar
has come up with a new angle on this very old problem. In 'From
Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American
Literature,' Randall Fuller reminds us that the 1860s featured as
talented a cohort of American writers as any decade could ask
for."--The Boston Globe
"An engaging story...Fuller is a gifted
storyteller...Well-researched, well-written, and well worth the
read."--Civil War Book Review
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