Marrs, Cody
MWF 4 :10 PM
Park Hall 0136
No event American history has been written about more than the Civil War. Nearly 70,000 books have been published about the Civil War—the equivalent of a book per day ever since the war ended in 1865. The story of the Civil War has also been retold in countless songs, films, paintings, stories, and works of art. Why has the Civil War had such a strong and lasting influence on American culture? What can we learn about the Civil War, and about American literature more broadly, by studying the stories that it has produced? To answer these questions, we will do a deep dive into Civil War literature, from the 1860s to today. We will study how this literature developed over time in both the North and the South, focusing on writers such as Mark Twain, Natasha Trethewey, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Walker, Mary Chesnut, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane.
No event American history has been written about more than the Civil War. Nearly 70,000 books have been published about the Civil War—the equivalent of a book per day ever since the war ended in 1865. The story of the Civil War has also been retold in countless songs, films, paintings, stories, and works of art. Why has the Civil War had such a strong and lasting influence on American culture? What can we learn about the Civil War, and about American literature more broadly, by studying the stories that it has produced? To answer these questions, we will do a deep dive into Civil War literature, from the 1860s to today. We will study how this literature developed over time in both the North and the South, focusing on writers such as Mark Twain, Natasha Trethewey, Ambrose Bierce, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Walker, Mary Chesnut, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and Stephen Crane.