John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarSinging "John Brown's Body" as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death. As the bodies of these soldiers accumulated in the wake of battle, writers, artists, and politicians extolled their deaths as a m |
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FRONTISPIECE : Confederate dead gathered for burial . Alexander Gardner , Antietam , Maryland , September 1862 . Library of Congress . For Carolyn Porter and in memory of Michael Rogin CONTENTS.
FRONTISPIECE : Confederate dead gathered for burial . Alexander Gardner , Antietam , Maryland , September 1862 . Library of Congress . For Carolyn Porter and in memory of Michael Rogin CONTENTS.
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Burying the Dead after the Battle of Antietam " 109 4.3 . " A Contrast : Federal Buried , Confederate Unburied " 110 Postmortem , unidentified young girl III 4.4 . 4.5 . Postmortem portrait , woman holding baby 112 4.6 .
Burying the Dead after the Battle of Antietam " 109 4.3 . " A Contrast : Federal Buried , Confederate Unburied " 110 Postmortem , unidentified young girl III 4.4 . 4.5 . Postmortem portrait , woman holding baby 112 4.6 .
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The corpses of marginal people , by con- trast , were frequently dismembered and denied the privilege of a proper burial . The mutilated bodies of soldiers , abandoned on the battlefield or hastily buried in unmarked graves , recalled ...
The corpses of marginal people , by con- trast , were frequently dismembered and denied the privilege of a proper burial . The mutilated bodies of soldiers , abandoned on the battlefield or hastily buried in unmarked graves , recalled ...
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Dead soldiers were rarely transported home for burial . Instead , they were buried in haste , if at all . Often their corpses went unidentified . Northerners found well - tried ritu- als suddenly antiquated as they grieved for dead ...
Dead soldiers were rarely transported home for burial . Instead , they were buried in haste , if at all . Often their corpses went unidentified . Northerners found well - tried ritu- als suddenly antiquated as they grieved for dead ...
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... soaking roots , grass and soil , with red blood ... the last lethargy winds like a serpent round him — the eyes glaze in death — none recks — perhaps the burial squads , in truce , a week afterwards , search not the secluded spot— ...
... soaking roots , grass and soil , with red blood ... the last lethargy winds like a serpent round him — the eyes glaze in death — none recks — perhaps the burial squads , in truce , a week afterwards , search not the secluded spot— ...
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The Blood of Millions John Browns Body Public Violence and Political Community | 14 |
The Blood of Black Men Rethinking Radical Science | 40 |
This Compost Death and Regeneration in Civil War Poetry | 71 |
Photographing the War Dead | 103 |
After Emancipation | 132 |
Glory | 165 |
Notes | 177 |
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| Título | John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Cultural studies of the United States |
| Autor | Franny Nudelman |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | UNC Press Books, 2004 |
| ISBN | 080785557X, 9780807855577 |
| Largo | 226 páginas |
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