Patriotism by proxy : the Civil War draft and the cultural formation of citizen-soldiers, 1863-1865 /

At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. 'Patriotism By Proxy' develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives by focusing on this historic moment when the military transformed both. Paired with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Boggs, Colleen Glenney (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Series:	Oxford studies in American literary history.
Subjects:	United States. > Army > Recruiting, enlistment, etc. > Civil War, 1861-1865. Draft > United States > History > 19th century. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Public Reading and the Civil War Draft Lottery
"We are Coming, Father Abraham": Draft Substitutes and the Parodic Politics of Representation
Alter Egos: Biopolitical Subjectivity and the Economics of Substitution
The Heroic Substitute: African American Writers and the Formation of Black Citizen-Soldiers
Conclusion.