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Introduction
Revival and revolution: the modes of modern memory. Memory for the masses: sacred history and the national press
Enslaved to the past: Emerson and the spirit of antislavery news
The news and Walt Whitman: poetry of the divine present
War stories and memory circuits: hypernationalism and the transatlantic time lag. Palaces of memory: global information and the specter of catholicity
Wars and rumors of wars: Kansas and the presentist crusade
"Transatlantic latter-day poetry": nationalist anxiety and the memory circuits of Leaves of grass
Conclusion.
Revival and revolution: the modes of modern memory. Memory for the masses: sacred history and the national press
Enslaved to the past: Emerson and the spirit of antislavery news
The news and Walt Whitman: poetry of the divine present
War stories and memory circuits: hypernationalism and the transatlantic time lag. Palaces of memory: global information and the specter of catholicity
Wars and rumors of wars: Kansas and the presentist crusade
"Transatlantic latter-day poetry": nationalist anxiety and the memory circuits of Leaves of grass
Conclusion.