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Confederate sympathies : same-sex romance, disunion, and reunion in the Civil War era /

"The archive of the Civil War era is filled with depictions of men's same-sex affections and intimacies. Across antebellum campaign biographies, proslavery fiction, published memoirs of Confederate veterans and Union prisoners of war, Civil War novels, newspaper accounts, and the war'...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Donnelly, Andrew, 1987- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
Male homosexuality in literature > Political aspects.
Men, White, in literature > Political aspects.
Male friendship in literature > Political aspects.
Male homosexuality > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Literature and the war.
Homosexualité masculine > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ.
Table of Contents:
  • The conservative, cross-sectional symbol of intimate male friendship in antebellum politics
  • The propaganda of male intimacy in the proslavery novel
  • Pretty, dead, young Confederates as erotic emblems of the Lost Cause
  • Andersonville prisoners of war and the racial competition of victimhood
  • Chums before the war: how two versions of homosexuality made meaning of Civil War history
  • Corruption, ingenuousness, and manly honesty: Henry James's attractive white Southerners
  • The sexuality of historiography and the premodern South.