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Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America
Contributor(s): DuQuette, Elizabeth (Author)

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 ISBN: 0813547806     ISBN-13: 9780813547800
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
OUR PRICE: $157.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: August 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: 810.935
LCCN: 2009043151
Series: American Literatures Initiative
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.24 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
Review Citations: Choice 03/01/2011
 
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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.
 
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