New Men: Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

by John Casey and John A. Casey

Book Overview

This intriguing exploration of the post-Civil War period through its fiction and nonfiction illuminates how the era spawned a new understanding of war veterans that lives on today.

Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessly melted back into society and that they adjusted to the demands of peacetime with little or no difficulty....

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823265390
• ISBN13: 9780823265398
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"