Veteran Americans : literature and citizenship from revolution to reconstruction

Veteran Americans : literature and citizenship from revolution to reconstruction

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2018.

xiii, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

355.115 C776 2018

(OCoLC)1012346089

Partial contents:1. Revolutionary captivity. 1776-1820: Mary Rowlandson, Ethan Allen, Lemuel Roberts, Thomas Dring -- 2. Civilian memories and veteran memoir. 1820-1830: James Fenimore Cooper, John Andre, Joseph Plumb Martin, Enoch Crosby, Thomas Painter -- 3. A bunch of veteran amateurs. 1830-1865: Charles Cummings, Israel Potter, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, William Richardson.|" .... Military men and women were active participants in early American print culture, yet they struggled against civilian prejudice about their character, against shifting collective memories that removed military experience from the nation's self-definition, and against a variety of headwinds in the uneven development of antebellum print culture. In this new literary history of early American veterans, Benjamin Cooper reveals how these men and women from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War demanded, through their writing, that their value as American citizens and authors be recognized. Relying on an archive of largely understudied veteran authors, Cooper situates their perspective against a civilian monopoly in defining American citizenship and literature that endures to this day"-- Provided by publisher.|Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-216) and index.|L2021M106

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