Splendid patriotism

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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