Reviews for The urban South

The average rating for The urban South based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-25 00:00:00 Kausikh Nandi As his book's title indicates, Daniel Aaron in The Unwritten War sets forth his belief that the truly great literary work of the American Civil War has not been written and is not likely to be written. Looking at the lives and writings of major American authors who were alive during the Civil War, and of some who lived and wrote after the war, Aaron provides thoughtful reflections on the Civil War-related writings of a number of canonical figures of American literature -- Lowell, Emerson, Hawthorne, Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Robert Penn Warren, and William Faulkner among them -- and sets forth his feelings regarding what might have kept each from writing the definitive work of Civil War literature. Aaron also comments on the writings of lesser-known authors more likely to be known only to fairly serious students of the history of the period -- for example, writers like George Templeton Strong, Henry Adams, William Dean Howells, John W. DeForest, Albion Tourgee, Sidney Lanier, Allen Tate, Mary Chesnut, and George Washington Cable. The chief omission to my mind is the lack of treatment of work by African-American writers. Where are the Civil War-related writings of Frederick Douglass, for example, or of Charles W. Chesnutt? Overall, however, The Unwritten War is a thoughtful, well-written survey that should appeal to students of the Civil War era.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-05-04 00:00:00 Darren Cherwonuk 5/4/16 found it through a NYT obit about the author. It sounds fascinating because it's about what didn't happen.