Boggs

Gebundenes Buch

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Beschreibung

At the height of the American Civil War in 1863 the Union instated the first ever federal draft. This book examines the draft as a cultural formation and develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives at this time.

Autor

Colleen Glenney Boggs is Professor of English at Dartmouth College. A specialist in nineteenth-century American literature, she is the author of Animalia Americana: Animal Representations and Biopolitical Subjectivity (Columbia University Press, 2013) and Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892 (Routledge, 2007). Her work has appeared in American Literature, PMLA, Cultural Critique, and J19, among others. She edited the volume MLA Options for Teaching the Literatures of the American Civil War (Modern Language Association, 2016), and co-edits the book series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures. She has served on the PMLA Editorial Board and as Director of the Leslie Center for the Humanities, and is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Mellon Foundation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780198863670
• ISBN-10: 0198863675
• Artikelnr.: 59082675