THE HISTORY OF CIVIL WAR PRISONS
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Hesseltine, William B. Civil War Prisons:
A Study in W ar Psychology. (Ohio State UP, 1998) A classic first published
in 1930 which presents the historiographical controversies surrounding
prison administration and policy.
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Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: Military
Prisons of the Civil War. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997.
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Marvel, William. Andersonville: The
Last Depot. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
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U.S. Civil War Center: links
to sites on prisons. The best index of sites on the subject, though
not annotated. I have selected some of the most useful:
WHITMAN
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Mc Elroy, John Harmon, ed. The sacrificial
years : a chronicle of Walt Whitman's experiences in the Civil War. Boston
: David R. Godine, 1999.
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Berthold, Dennis and Price, Kenneth M.,
eds.
Dear Brother Walt: The Letters of Thomas Jefferson Whitman.
Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 1984, pp. 97-109.
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Erkkila, Betsy. Whitman the Political
Poet. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
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Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America.
New
York: Knopf, 1994.
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The Whitman
Hypertext Archive at the University of Virginia; the granddaddy of
all Whitman sites (no advertisement intended, of course...)
DICKINSON
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Dobson, Joanne. Dickinson and the Strategies
of Reticence: The Woman Writer in 19th-century America. Bloomington:
Indiana UP, 1989.
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Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden:
Rereading Emily Dickinson. Austin: U Texas P, 1992.
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Juhasz, Suzanne. The Undiscovered Continent:
Dickinson and the Space of the Mind. Indiana UP, 1983.
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The Dickinson
Electronic Archives and The
Emily Dickinson Page have useful links to poems, manuscripts, and reader's
comments
NINETEENTH-CENTURY POETRY
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Wilson, Edmund. Patriotic Gore: Studies
in the Literature of the Civil War. London: Hogarth, 1987 rpt. Classic
study.
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Steinmetz, Lee. Poetry of the American
Civil War. Michigan State UP, 1960. Anthology.
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Hollander, John, ed. American Poetry:
The Nineteenth Century. New York: Library of America, 1993, 2 v.
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Bennett, Paula Bernat, ed. 19th-century
American Women Poets: An Anthology. New York: Blackwell, 1998. Good
critical apparatus with an emphasis on social life; especially useful for
looking at lesser-known writers publishing in newspapers.
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Walker, Cheryl, ed. American Women Poets
of the 19th Century. Rutgers UP, 1992. Introduction treats women and
"captivity theme."
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Legacy:
A Journal of 19th-Century Women Writers maintains a searchable
web site.
POETRY OF TRAUMA, WAR, AND PRISON LIFE
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Forche, Carolyn, ed. Against Forgetting:
20th-century Poetry of Witness. New York: Norton, 1993. This excellent
global anthology of poetry written under conditions of duress has a useful
introduction.
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Felman, Shoshana and Laub, Dori, eds. Testimony:
Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. Routledge,
1992. Theoretical concepts for analyzing the literature of trauma.
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Chevigny, Bell Gale, ed. Doing Time:
25 Years of Prison Writing. New York: Arcade, 1999.
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