The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Magazine Marketplace, 1861-1876

Author/Contributor(s):	Diffley, Kathleen
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	11/01/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This "is the second volume of Diffley's trilogy on Civil War magazine fiction, called Making War Civil ... In Fateful Lightning, Diffley traces the sectional conflicts in a postwar nation, and how region shaped the political agendas of these post-war editorials. Diffley argues that the journals she looks at in this project present stories that give 'unpredictable' results of sectional conflict and commemorate the Civil War differently from the Northeast publishing establishments. Diffley threads this through her analysis of four literary journals: the Baltimore's Southern Magazine, Charlotte's The Land We Love, Chicago's Lakeside Monthly, and San Francisco's Overland Monthly"--