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Christopher Hager is a writer who explores the lives of ordinary Americans through their writing—diaries kept by slaves, letters written by the wives and children of Civil War soldiers, magazine stories by factory workers.
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7 de sept. de 2015 · “Through a series of bold, imaginative and insightful case studies, Christopher Hager uncovers the intellectual world of U.S. slavery and charts the hopes, expectations and fears of enslaved writers…
An “extraordinary book.” — Journal of Southern History. Listen to podcasts about the book. Purchase at Powell's, Amazon, or HUP. “Lively, polemic, sharply written, and ingeniously researched.” — Early American Literature. “This is the volume of literary criticism we deserve.” — Studies in the Novel. Read a blog post on “When the 21st Century Began”
7 de sept. de 2015 · Through a series of bold, imaginative and insightful case studies, Christopher Hager uncovers the intellectual world of U.S. slavery and charts the hopes, expectations and fears of enslaved writers…
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The idiosyncrasies of these untutored authors, Hager argues, reveal the enormous difficulty of straddling the border between slave and free. These unusual texts, composed by...
Christopher Hager uncovers the worlds of battlefront and home front for ordinary people in one of the most important books ever written on the history of emotions. He finds in the tortured grammar of soldiers and their loved ones the shocks, trauma, fear, and the deadening mundane of war's upheaval.
