The University of Iowa Department of English

Kathleen Diffley

Executive Director of the Midwest Modern Language Association
Editor, M/MLA Journal

bookcover: To Live and DieSelected Publications

Books

The Fateful Lightning: Civil War Stories and the Literary Marketplace (in progress)

To Live and Die: Collected Stories of the Civil War, 1861-1876. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2002

Where My Heart is Turning Ever: Civil War Stories and Constitutional Reform, 1861-1876. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1992

Selected Articles

"The Roil of Contemporary Debate: Uncovering Literature and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America." Inaugural essay of  "The Loop." M/MLA Journal 35 (Spring 2002): 85-95

"Clean Forgotten: Woolson’s Great Lakes Illustrated." Constance Fenimore Woolson’s Nineteenth Century: Essays. Ed. Victoria Brehm. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2001. 119-39

"Commemorative Stamps" ALH 12 (2000): 254-71

"Home from the Theatre of War: The Southern Magazine and Recollections of the Civil War." Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. Kenneth M. Price and Susan Belasco Smith. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1995. 183-201

"'Musquitos,' Rattlesnakes, and Perspiration: The Civil War's Special Artist for the Illustrated London News." Books at Iowa 63 (1995): 3-13

"Home on the Range: Turner, Slavery, and the Landscape Illustrations in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1861-1876." Prospects 14 (1989): 175-202

Multimedia Projects

HarpWeek presents . . . "A Sampler of Civil War Literature" <http://www.civilwarliterature.com/>

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