Cotton Famine Poetry Functions of Emotion in British and American Verse 1861-65 [#991227]

Free Download Cotton Famine Poetry: Functions of Emotion in British and American Verse 1861-65 (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) by Simon Rennie
English | November 20, 2025 | ISBN: 3032019621 | 333 pages | True ePUB, PDF | 13 Mb
This book represents the first substantial text examining the nature of Cotton Famine poetry, which responded to the severe economic downturn in the cotton trade in Lancashire and elsewhere precipitated by the Union blockade of Confederate exports during the American Civil War (1861-65). The poetry, largely collected from Lancashire newspapers and American periodicals, is featured on the Poetry of the Lancashire Cotton Famine database. The poems offer a unique opportunity to engage with the opinions and feelings of ordinary Victorians reacting to extraordinary circumstances, and a chance to re-assess Anglo-American relations during the Civil War through the lens of transatlantic poetic discourse.