ELIZABETH DUQUETTE is an associate professor of English at Gettysburg College. She has previously published articles with a focus on philosophy and nineteenth-century American literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Pledging Allegiance1. Loyalty, Oaths, and the Nation2. One Big Happy Family, Again?3. Pledging Allegiance in Henry James4. Loyalty's Slaves5. Philosophies of LoyaltyAfterwordNotesIndex

"Loyal Subjects illuminates our understanding of sympathy, civic life, and literary production around and after the Civil War. By taking up the concept of loyalty as distinctive from sentiment and sympathy, Duquette makes a powerful case for the Civil War as a rich locus of narrative meaning." - Caroline Levander (Rice University) "Duquette has written a compelling, well-researched study of how literary texts 'defined, disseminated, and resisted' loyalty during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Recommended." (Choice) "A provocative literary rendering of the idea of loyalty during the Civil War era."(Journal of American History) "Loyal Subjects illuminates our understanding of sympathy, civic life, and literary production around and after the Civil War. By taking up the concept of loyalty as distinctive from sentiment and sympathy, Duquette makes a powerful case for the Civil War as a rich locus of narrative meaning." - Caroline Levander (Rice University) "Duquette has written a compelling, well-researched study of how literary texts 'defined, disseminated, and resisted' loyalty during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Recommended." (Choice) "A provocative literary rendering of the idea of loyalty during the Civil War era."(Journal of American History)

ELIZABETH DUQUETTE is an associate professor of English at Gettysburg College. She has previously published articles with a focus on philosophy and nineteenth-century American literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Pledging Allegiance1. Loyalty, Oaths, and the Nation2. One Big Happy Family, Again?3. Pledging Allegiance in Henry James4. Loyalty's Slaves5. Philosophies of LoyaltyAfterwordNotesIndex

"Loyal Subjects illuminates our understanding of sympathy, civic life, and literary production around and after the Civil War. By taking up the concept of loyalty as distinctive from sentiment and sympathy, Duquette makes a powerful case for the Civil War as a rich locus of narrative meaning." - Caroline Levander (Rice University) "Duquette has written a compelling, well-researched study of how literary texts 'defined, disseminated, and resisted' loyalty during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Recommended." (Choice) "A provocative literary rendering of the idea of loyalty during the Civil War era."(Journal of American History) "Loyal Subjects illuminates our understanding of sympathy, civic life, and literary production around and after the Civil War. By taking up the concept of loyalty as distinctive from sentiment and sympathy, Duquette makes a powerful case for the Civil War as a rich locus of narrative meaning." - Caroline Levander (Rice University) "Duquette has written a compelling, well-researched study of how literary texts 'defined, disseminated, and resisted' loyalty during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Recommended." (Choice) "A provocative literary rendering of the idea of loyalty during the Civil War era."(Journal of American History)

ELIZABETH DUQUETTE is an associate professor of English at Gettysburg College. She has previously published articles with a focus on philosophy and nineteenth-century American literature.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Pledging Allegiance1. Loyalty, Oaths, and the Nation2. One Big Happy Family, Again?3. Pledging Allegiance in Henry James4. Loyalty's Slaves5. Philosophies of LoyaltyAfterwordNotesIndex

"Loyal Subjects illuminates our understanding of sympathy, civic life, and literary production around and after the Civil War. By taking up the concept of loyalty as distinctive from sentiment and sympathy, Duquette makes a powerful case for the Civil War as a rich locus of narrative meaning." - Caroline Levander (Rice University) "Duquette has written a compelling, well-researched study of how literary texts 'defined, disseminated, and resisted' loyalty during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Recommended." (Choice) "A provocative literary rendering of the idea of loyalty during the Civil War era."(Journal of American History) "Loyal Subjects illuminates our understanding of sympathy, civic life, and literary production around and after the Civil War. By taking up the concept of loyalty as distinctive from sentiment and sympathy, Duquette makes a powerful case for the Civil War as a rich locus of narrative meaning." - Caroline Levander (Rice University) "Duquette has written a compelling, well-researched study of how literary texts 'defined, disseminated, and resisted' loyalty during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. Recommended." (Choice) "A provocative literary rendering of the idea of loyalty during the Civil War era."(Journal of American History)