Patriotic Gore

Patriotic Gore, collection of essays by Edmund Wilson, published in 1962. Subtitled Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War, the book contains 16 essays on contemporaries’ attitudes toward the Civil War, the effect it had on their lives, and the effects of the postwar Reconstruction period. Although the work focuses particularly on the South, it examines written documentary and literary material from both sides of the conflict. Among the subjects of the essays...