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    The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Literary Marketplace, 1861-1876
    The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Literary Marketplace, 1861-1876
    The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Literary Marketplace, 1861-1876
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    The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Literary Marketplace, 1861-1876

    By Kathleen Diffley

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    The Fateful Lightning is the second volume of Kathleen Diffley’s trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction. While her first book of  the trilogy, Where My Heart Is Turning Ever, charted the role  of magazine fiction from the Northeast in “grounding the rites  of citizenship” following the end of the Civil War, The Fateful Lightning traces the sectional conflicts in a postwar nation and how region shaped the political agendas of these postwar editorials.


    Diffley argues that the journals she examines present stories that give unpredictable results of sectional conflict and commemorate the Civil War differently from the northeastern publishing establishments. She weaves this argument through her analysis of four literary journals: Baltimore’s Southern Magazine,  Charlotte’s The Land We Love, Chicago’s Lakeside Monthly,  and San Francisco’s Overland Monthly. Diffley uses a method of  literary analysis that looks at what is not only present in the text but also present throughout its historically informed context, gleaning cultural meanings from what the stories also filter out. Coupling this literary analysis with city studies, Diffley’s innovative  approach demonstrates how these editorials offer varying gauges of  continued political unrest, rising social opportunity, and conflicting commemorative investments as Reconstruction began to unfold.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2021
    ISBN9780820358567
    The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Literary Marketplace, 1861-1876
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    Kathleen Diffley

    KATHLEEN DIFFLEY is an associate professor of English at the University of Iowa and director of the Civil War Caucus at the M/MLA. She is the author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861–1876 and the coeditor of Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (both Georgia). She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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