<i>A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation</i> by John Matteson (A Pre-Publication Book Review)

Authors

  • Mariola Świerkot

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.11029

Keywords:

Civil War, Fredericksburg, History, Life Writing, John Matteson, book review

Abstract

Mariola Świerkot's review of John Matteson's A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation. W.W. Norton & Company 2021. ISBN 978-0-393-24707-7

References

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter. Ticknor and Fields, 1850. https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/127/the-scarlet-letter/2264/introduction-the-custom-house. Accessed 25 Dec. 2020.

Jędrzejko, Paweł. “Uniwersalny uścisk dłoni. W stronę egzystencjalnej etyki Hermana Melville’a.” Etyczne paradygmaty żeglarstwa w głównych nurtach komunikacji społecznej, edited by Zbigniew Kosiorowski. PZŻ i Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna TWP w Szczecinie, 2009, pp. 23–32.

Jędrzejko, Paweł. Płynność i egzystencja. Doświadczenie lądu i morza a egzystencjalizm Hermana Melville’a. BananaArt.Pl/ExMachina/M-Studio, 2008

Kosiorowski, Zbigniew, ed. Etyczne paradygmaty żeglarstwa w głównych nurtach komunikacji społecznej. PZŻ i Wyższa Szkoła Humanistyczna TWP w Szczecinie, 2009,

Matteson, John. A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation. W.W. Norton & Company 2021. ISBN 978-0-393-24707-7

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Project Gutenberg, 2017. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm Accessed. 26 Dec. 2020.

RIAS Vol. 12, Fall-Winter No. 2/2020

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2020-12-31

How to Cite

Świerkot, M. (2020). <i>A Worse Place Than Hell: How the Civil War Battle of Fredericksburg Changed a Nation</i> by John Matteson (A Pre-Publication Book Review). Review of International American Studies, 13(2), 221–228. https://doi.org/10.31261/rias.11029

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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2020): One World: The Americas Everywhere—RIAS Vol. 13, Fall–Winter (2/2020)

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