Author: John William De Forest
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ISBN: 9781294994961
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: John William De Forest
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Author: J.W de Forest
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375233472X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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Reproduction of the original: Miss Ravenel's Conversion From Secession To Loyalty by J.W de Forest
Author: Lisa A. Long
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220266X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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The American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, Lisa A. Long charts how its extreme carnage dictated the Civil War's development into a lasting trope that expresses not only altered social, economic, and national relationships but also an emergent self-consciousness. Looking to a wide range of literary, medical, and historical texts, she explores how they insist on the intimate relationship between the war and a variety of invisible wounds, illnesses, and infirmities that beset Americans throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and plague us still today. Long shows how efforts to narrate credibly the many and sometimes illusory sensations elicited by the Civil War led writers to the modern discourses of health and history, which are premised on the existence of a corporeal and often critical reality that practitioners cannot know fully yet believe in nevertheless. Professional thinkers and doers both literally and figuratively sought to rehabilitate—to reclothe, normalize, and stabilize—Civil War bodies and the stories that accounted for them. Taking a fresh look at the work of canonical war writers such as Louisa May Alcott and Stephen Crane while examining anew public records, journalism, and medical writing, Long brings the study of the Civil War into conversation with recent critical work on bodily ontology and epistemology and theories of narrative and history.
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher: New York : Bowker
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1296
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Author: William M. Etter
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443818887
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
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The Good Body: Normalizing Visions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 1836–1867 examines literary and cultural representations of so-called “normal” and “abnormal” bodies in the antebellum and Civil War-era United States and the ways in which these representations operated as a means of justifying, critiquing, and problematizing prominent concerns of the period: the relationship between the health of American citizens and national progress, Western expansion, debates over slavery, the threatened dissolution of the Union in the Civil War, and the legitimation of the post-war reunified nation. Considering a wide range of sources—classic works of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry; health reform textbooks; proslavery documents; photographs of Civil War veterans; and Civil War medical records of the federal government—this study demonstrates that American literature of this period typically imagined real and fictional bodies as healthy, aesthetically pleasing, and symbolically coherent in relation to other bodies imagined as deviating from these “norms” to preserve existing political and social orders but also, at times, to challenge the hegemonic power of US institutions. In addition to the literary material considered, central in this book are critical approaches to history and disability studies which illuminate the construction of physical “normality” and contribute to recent scholarly attempts to assess the significance of physical differences in the literature and culture of the United States.
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Languages : en
Pages : 786
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