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Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Chesnut, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes prove Wilson to be the consummate witness to the most eloquently recorded era in American history.
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Shaun Nettle
reviewed Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War on February 14, 2008
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
Impossibly bulky and ultra-erudite.
I came into this because I wanted to get more of Edmund Wilson, not so much for the thirst of knowledge about the Civil War.
I learned a lot. The Battle Hymn of The Republic was written as a sort of response to a set of Calvinist fever-dreams, Wilson's comparison of Lincoln with Lenin and Bismark (!), Stonewall Jackson's vacant inhumanity, Sidney Lanier's verse and Ambrose Bierce's morbid musings. The portrait of Oliver Wendell Holmes is brillaintly done, as is the one of Lee and of Jefferson Davis.
There are many small, tucked-away anecdotes within this text that wouldn't be out of place in something by Dickens or Balzac. Wilson had a thing about tiny cameos in his grand historical texts that neve cease to interest me and make me intrigued and make me chuckle.
If you are a Civil War buff this will pay back your time and attention many times over.
If not, just hang on and enjoy the ride.
The introduction is extremely wise, deep, and prophetic...."nations inhaling other nations like slugs..." watch out...
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