Patriotic Gore

Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War

First edition
Author	Edmund Wilson
Subject	Civil War and 19th century American historical and literary criticism
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1962
Pages	816pp.
OCLC	269476
Dewey Decimal	810.9
LC Class	62009834

Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War is a 1962 book of historical and literary criticism written by Edmund Wilson. It consists of 26 chapters about the works and lives of almost 30 writers, including Ambrose Bierce, George Washington Cable‡, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Kate Chopin, John William De Forest‡ (who, as Henry Steele Commager puts it, "surprisingly gets more space than any other writer, North or South"), Charlotte Forten, Ulysses Grant‡, Francis Grierson‡, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hinton Rowan Helper, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.‡, Henry James, Sidney Lanier, Abraham Lincoln, John S. Mosby, Frederick Law Olmsted, Thomas Nelson Page, Harriet Beecher Stowe‡, Albion W. Tourgée John Townsend Trowbridge, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. In addition to De Forest, Wilson pays particular attention to Cable, Grant, Grierson, Holmes, and Stowe, choices considered " and unexpected" at the time of its publication.