A History of American Civil War Literature / [edited by] Coleman Hutchison, University of Texas, Austin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Harriet Beecher Stowe and the 'book that made this great war' Judie Newman; 2. The American book trade and the Civil War Michael Winship; 3. The transatlantic history of Civil War literature Christopher Hanlon; 4. The 'American renaissance' after the American Civil War Randall Fuller; 5. The realists' Civil War Ian Finseth; 6. Depot culture: the Civil War and periodical fiction Kathleen Diffley; 7. Imitation and resistance in Civil War poetry and song Faith Barrett; 8. Children's literature James Marten; 9. Writing lives: Civil War diaries Jane E. Schultz; 10. Civil War memoir Sarah E. Gardner; 11. Civil War narrative history T. Austin Graham; 12. Walt Whitman Martin Buinicki; 13. Emily Dickinson Shira Wolosky; 14. Herman Melville Milette Shamir; 15. Abraham Lincoln Shirley Samuels; 16. Frederick Douglass Robert S. Levine; 17. Mary Boykin Chesnut Julia A. Stern; 18. Mark Twain Neil Schmitz; 19. William Faulkner John T. Matthews; 20. Robert Penn Warren John Burt; 21. Natasha Trethewey Daniel Cross Turner.