Splendid patriotism

How the Illustrated London News pictured the Confederacy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3852307
AutoresKathleen Diffley (University of Iowa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen5
Número4
Páginas385-407
Fecha de publicación2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/147757007x228181
OpenAlexW2094112106
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas6

At a time when newspaper reports from Richmond or Charleston were few and the Southern states remained mysterious in Europe, Frank Vizetelly's drawings helped give an international audience a way to see the stirrings of a would-be nation, while his commentary made it possible to read the conservative social order of the South against both the market enthusiasms of the North and the growing clamor for reform and wider suffrage in Britain itself. The problem of heterogeneity in Britain's domestic affairs thus made the American Civil War at once newsworthy and a virtual referendum on social change, particularly when the ILN printed the best pictorial coverage of the Confederacy. Invoking the recent wars in Italy, Vizetelly tied Confederate secession to Italian independence, but as a result he also insinuated the steadfast commitment to emancipation that had made Garibaldi the hero of London and the abolitionist North.Keywords: AMERICAN REVOLUTIONBULL RUNCONFEDERACYGARIBALDI, GIUSEPPEILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWSSLAVERYSTUART, J.E.BVIZETELLY, FRANK Additional informationNotes on contributorsKathleen DiffleyKathleen Diffley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Executive Director of the Midwest Modern Language Association. Author of Where My Heart Is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861–1876 (University of Georgia Press, 1992), she has also edited To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War (Duke University Press, 2002)

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