Veteran Americans: Literature and Citizenship from Revolution to Reconstruction

by Benjamin Cooper

"I may dare to speak, and I intend to speak and write what I think," wrote a New York volunteer serving in the Mexican War in 1848. Such sentiments of resistance and confrontation run throughout the literature produced by veteran Americans in the nineteenth century-from prisoner-of-war narratives and memoirs to periodicals, adventure pamphlets, and novels. Military men and women were active participants in early American print culture, yet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625343310
• ISBN13: 9781625343314
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"