History 4976 - Advanced Seminar: The American Trauma: Representing the Civil War in Art, Literature and Politics

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Washington University in St Louis

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Description:

This seminar is an interdisciplinary examination of how Americans represented the Civil War during and after the titanic conflict, with special attention given to the period between 1865 and 1915. The course explores how painters, novelists, photographers, sculptors, essayists, journalists, philosophers, historians, and filmmakers engaged the problems of constructing narrative and reconstructing national and individual identity out of the physical and psychological wreckage of a war that demanded horrific sacrifice and the destruction of an enemy that could not be readily dissociated from the self.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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