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- Title
"You Talk Like a Book": Constance Fenimore Woolson's Civil War Poetry and the Regionalization of Speech.
- Authors
Sweet, Timothy
- Abstract
The article discusses the U.S. Civil War poetry of novelist, poet and short story writer Constance Fenimore Woolson and the regionalization of speech in the 19th century. Particular focus is given on Woolson's ballad "Kentucky Belle," convened a public by one of the Civil War's raid of Confederate cavalry commanded by John Hunt Morgan through Ohio in 1863.
- Subjects
WOOLSON, Fenimore; 19TH century American poetry; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865, in literature; MORGAN, John Hunt, 1825-1864; BALLAD (Literary form)
- Publication
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2017, Vol 5, Issue 1, p129
- ISSN
2166-742X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jnc.2017.0007