Columbia / New York: The Ruins of the Civil War
This essay explores the political aesthetics of visual and textual representations of ruins following episodes of urban destruction during the Civil War. Although ruins were long held to be lacking in the nineteenth-century US landscape—and their absence deemed a sign of America’s newness—ruins were...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2022-05-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/18819 |