Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secessions to Loyalty
More panoramic in scope and more realistic in its details than Crane's Red Badge of Courage, this is one of the first and best novels ever written about the American Civil War Drawing on his own combat experience with the Union forces, John W. De Forest crafted a war novel like nothing before it in the annals of American literature. His first-hand knowledge of the wilderness of death made its way on to the pages of his riveting novel with devastating effect. Whether depicting the tedium before combat, the unspoken horror of battle, or the grisly butchery of the field hospital, De Forest broke new ground, anticipating the realistic war writing…
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Weitere Autoren: Scharnhorst, Gary
- ISBN: 978-0-14-043757-7
- EAN: 9780140437577
- Produktnummer: 9343639
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 544 S.
Über den Autor
Gary Scharnhorst is editor of American Literary Realism and editor in alternating years of the research annual American Literary Scholarship.
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