Output details
30 - History
University of Cambridge
Book title
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
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Publisher of book
Belknap Press
ISBN of book
978-0674048553
Year of publication
2012
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This 300-page book studies the conceptualization of the American Civil War during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s, especially in the public and private writings of four intellectuals (Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, James Baldwin) as they responded to the centennial of the war. It explores a very wide range of literary forms (history, fiction, poetry, literary criticism) and is based on extensive research in both the printed record, including newspapers, and in manuscripts located in widely–dispersed archives at Yale University, the University of Wyoming, Savannah GA, and Charleston SC.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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