Ashes of the Mind: War and Memory in Northern Literature, 1865-1900

Dedication

For my mother, Dorothy Griffin, and in memory of my father, John R.Griffin There was an American war. Just as much an American war as when there is, that it is, where they come and they do not come, where they were there where they were, not there where they meant. They did not mean where they will, they cannot will. It would mean that they would write a will which they did not. Of course why they did not. Gertrude Stein, 1934 ...