"The Man Without a Country"

I. Introduction

A. Published Nov/Dec 1863

B. Edward Everett Hale

1. Edward Everett

2. Nathan Hale

C. Reputation

D. Loyalty to nation/country, not to state or section.

II. Verisimilitude

A. Specificity of time and place

B. Historical references

C. Narrator

D. Hale's plain style

III. Plot
IV. Transfer of loyalties

A. Nolan

1. Reading Scott

2. Dance

3. Battle

4. Slave ship

B. Reader

V. Moral

A. For Civil War

1. Message to Confederates

2. "Texas is out of the map" (46).

3. Danforth's decision

B. General

1. Country as a mother

2. Country as a home

VI. Comparison to Lincoln

A. Country v. people

B. Political definition?

C. My country, right or wrong?

D. "Country" does not equal "government."