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"""A critical examination of the two most significant Civil War poets that brings together some of the most talented and insightful Melville and Whitman scholars. 'This Mighty Convulsion' is timely and important.""--Randall Fuller, author, From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature ""In the context of current political fractures in America, Sten and Hoffman's fascinatingly illustrated collection recognizes 'the ongoing cultural work of reparation and healing across racial and regional lines, 'taking timely lessons from what Whitman described as the 'agonising and lurid' years of the Civil War.""--This Year's Work in English Studies ""Not only do these essays plumb deeply the aesthetic, political, historical, and critical dimensions of Whitman's Drum-Taps and Melville's Battle-Pieces, viewed both together and apart, but also they reveal scars the war left on the poets themselves--poignant residue of 'this mighty convulsion'--that make their work timely and new.""--Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"

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Christopher Sten is professor of English and American literature at George Washington University. He is the author of The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel. He lives in Washington, DC. Tyler Hoffman is professor of English at Rutgers University-Camden. He is the author of Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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