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This article explores how British and American poets used national personifications to comment on the Civil War and its repercussions.

‘His Vest, I Perceive, Is But Padded with Cotton!’: John Bull in Cotton Famine Poetry during the American Civil War (1861–5)

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The article analyzes poetry that critiques commerce and slavery in Britain during the American Civil War, highlighting transatlantic interactions.

This article explores how British and American poets used national personifications to comment on the Civil War and its repercussions.
Analysis of poetry published in British and American newspapers.
Examination of poems related to the cotton famine and its socio-economic impact.
Investigation of the cultural and political contexts of the poems.
Cotton famine poetry highlighted the frustrations of British workers affected by the Union blockade.
Poems reflected differing views on Britain's neutrality and abolitionist stance.
The poetry served as cultural artefacts of Britain's imperial and national identity during the mid-Victorian period.

Michelle Honeybun (2026) studied this question.

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The article analyzes poetry that critiques commerce and slavery in Britain during the American Civil War, highlighting transatlantic interactions.

This article explores how British and American poets used national personifications to comment on the Civil War and its repercussions.
Analysis of poetry published in British and American newspapers.
Examination of poems related to the cotton famine and its socio-economic impact.
Investigation of the cultural and political contexts of the poems.
Cotton famine poetry highlighted the frustrations of British workers affected by the Union blockade.
Poems reflected differing views on Britain's neutrality and abolitionist stance.
The poetry served as cultural artefacts of Britain's imperial and national identity during the mid-Victorian period.

Michelle Honeybun (2026) studied this question.

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