Description: Patriotism by Proxy : The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1, Hardcover by Boggs, Colleen Glenney, ISBN 0198863675, ISBN-13 9780198863670, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US At the height of the Civil War in 1863, the Union instated the first-ever federal draft. Patriotism By Proxy develops a new understanding of the connections between American literature and American lives by focusing on this historic moment when the military transformed both.
Paired with the Emancipation Proclamation, the 1863 draft inaugurated new relationships between the nation and its citizens. A massive bureaucratic undertaking, it redefined the American people as a population, laying bare social divisions as wealthy draftees hired substitutes to serve in their
stead. The draft is the context in which American politics met and also transformed into a new kind of biopolitics, and these substitutes reflect the transformation of how the state governed American life. Censorship and the suspension of habeas corpus prohibited free discussions over the drafts
significance, making literary devices and genres the primary means for deliberating over the changing meanings of political representation and citizenship.
Assembling an extensive textual and visual archive, Patriotism by Proxy examines the draft as a cultural formation that operated at the nexus of political abstraction and embodied specificity, where the definition of national subjectivity was negotiated in the interstices of what it means to be a
citizen-soldier. It brings together novels, poems, letters, and newspaper editorials that show how Americans discussed the draft at a time of censorship, and how the federal draft changed the way that Americans related to the state and to each other.
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Book Title: Patriotism by Proxy : The Civil War Draft and the Cultural Format
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Name: Patriotism by Proxy : the Civil War Draft and the Cultural Formation of Citizen-Soldiers, 1863-1865
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: American / General, United States / General
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.1 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Item Length: 9.5 in
Author: Colleen Glenney Boggs
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
