Podcast interview re the Civil War in American literature w/ Dr. Randall Fuller

Posted this morning at Electric Politics, a podcast interview with Dr.
Randall Fuller, author of From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War
Transformed American Literature (Oxford, 2011). This book sheds a
brilliant light on the lessons that human beings tend to relearn every
several generations, and on some of the lessons -- in the American
experience -- that seem to go perpetually unlearned.

One might suppose that the leading figures of American literature at
the time of the Civil War would have had a lot to say about why the
war happened. One would be wrong. With the partial exception of Herman
Melville, American writers were more concerned with their feelings
about the experience. Even so, most lost their innocence in their
recognition that the war was a human tragedy. Some, like Walt Whitman,
never again wrote with the same soaring optimism about America's
destiny.

If you like the podcast please feel free to redistribute the link.

http://www.electricpolitics.com/podcast/2011/04/americas_exceptional_amnesia.html

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