| FB-52900-07 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Randall J. Fuller, PhD | American Romanticism and the Civil War | 5/1/2007 - 4/30/2008 | $40,000.00 | Randall | J. | Fuller | | | | Drury University | Springfield | MO | 65802-3712 | USA | 2006 | American Literature | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
"American Romanticism and the Civil War" seeks to recover the writing as well as the literary culture of a period generally regarded as a rupture in history that ended the reign of Transcendentalism and redirected writing toward realism, naturalism, and the novel of social themes. My book project traces the often-overlooked Civil War writing of canonical figures such as Emerson, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Whitman, and Melville--but it does so by contextualizing that work within residual and emergent strains of literary Romanticism and realism evident in periodicals, journals, diaries, and newspapers. |