Voices in the dead house
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Published
New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
Status
Franklin Ave. Library - Fiction - Adult
Lock, N.
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Lock, N.
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Published
New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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"After the Union Army's defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to attend to the sick, wounded, and dying. Both of these iconic Americans, known for bucking the conventions of their day, find their principles and beliefs tested by grueling and grisly duties. Walt Whitman was a man of many contradictions: egocentric yet compassionate, vain though frequently transported by the beauty of others, he was a bigot who sang the song of all mankind as the great poet of democracy. He delighted in the pleasures of the flesh and had no patience for religiosity but was moved by the spiritual in all men and women, from janitor to president. Louisa May Alcott, still beloved for Little Women, was an intense, intellectual, independent woman, an abolitionist and a suffragist, who was compelled to write saccharine magazine stories to save her mother and siblings from the poorhouse but aspired to true, unsentimental artistic expression. Alcott would write of her Civil War nursing experiences in Hospital Sketches and Whitman in his poem "The Wound Dresser", from which these vivid fictional evocations are in part drawn. In this double portrait, Lock deftly captures the special musicality and preoccupations of each writer as they confront war's devastation and grapple with the politics of a racist reality that continues to haunt us today"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lock, N. (2022). Voices in the dead house (First edition.). Bellevue Literary Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lock, Norman, 1950-. 2022. Voices in the Dead House. Bellevue Literary Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lock, Norman, 1950-. Voices in the Dead House Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lock, Norman. Voices in the Dead House First edition., Bellevue Literary Press, 2022.
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