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Rebherger, Dean. "The Mystic Chords of Memory: Nationalism, Historical Novels, and the American Civil War," University of Utah, 1991. Advisor: Stephen Tatum (2, 18, 11)
By analyzing best-selling Civil War novels, this study argues that historical novels are social practices fully intricated in the construction and perpetuation of the national “American” identity and, consequently, the individual “American” during periods of perceived social crisis. Using theories drawn from British Cultural Studies and Gramsci, I argue that historical novels, as symbolic acts, work to contain (manage, fix, cover-over) social antagonisms in a “desire” to construct a stable national identity for the dominant cultural group (a “hegemonic desire” that is always partially deferred because hegemony is never completely realized by one cultural group).
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