Patriotic Gore
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Overview
The classic study of literature from the Civil War, featuring critical profiles of notable figures who captured its grim reality and profound meaning.
In his introduction to Patriotic Gore, Edmund Wilson asks, “Has there ever been another historical crisis of the magnitude of 1861–1865 in which so many people were so articulate?” Regarded by many as Wilson’s greatest book, Patriotic Gore more than proves the point, brilliantly portraying the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.
Figures discussed include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, among many others.
In his introduction to Patriotic Gore, Edmund Wilson asks, “Has there ever been another historical crisis of the magnitude of 1861–1865 in which so many people were so articulate?” Regarded by many as Wilson’s greatest book, Patriotic Gore more than proves the point, brilliantly portraying the vast political, spiritual, and material crisis of the Civil War as reflected in the lives and writings of some thirty representative Americans.
Figures discussed include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, among many others.
- Title: Patriotic Gore
- Author: Edmund Wilson
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 954
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781466899636, 1466899638
- Resource ID: LLS:9781466899636
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T10:28:00Z
Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include Axel’s Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.