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Victorian America and the Civil War
Anne C. Rose
出版Cambridge University Press, 1994-09-30
主題History / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)History / Modern / GeneralHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
ISBN05214788399780521478830
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-j332ljEa9IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Victorian America and the Civil War examines the relationships between American Victorian culture and the Civil War. The author argues that at the heart of American Victorian culture was Romanticism, a secular quest to answer questions previously settled by traditional religion. In examining the biographies of seventy-five Americans who lived in the antebellum and Civil War eras, elements of disequilibrium, passion and intellectual excitement are explored in contrast to the traditional view of Victorian self-control and moral assurance. The Civil War is shown to be a central event in the cultural life of the American Victorians, which both was an environment for the resolution of their questions and a place where their values and aspirations could be reshaped.