John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarUNC Press Books, 2004 - 226 páginas Singing "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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... . 4 ( 2001 ) : 639-70 . Used with permission . FRONTISPIECE : Confederate dead gathered for burial . Alexander Gardner , Antietam , Maryland , September 1862 . Library of Congress . For Carolyn Porter and in memory of Michael Rogin ...
... . 4 ( 2001 ) : 639-70 . Used with permission . FRONTISPIECE : Confederate dead gathered for burial . Alexander Gardner , Antietam , Maryland , September 1862 . Library of Congress . For Carolyn Porter and in memory of Michael Rogin ...
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... Buried , Confederate Unburied " 110 Postmortem , unidentified young girl III 4.4 . 4.5 . Postmortem portrait , woman holding baby 112 4.6 . " Field Where General Reynolds Fell " 120 4.7 . " The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter " 122 4.8 ...
... Buried , Confederate Unburied " 110 Postmortem , unidentified young girl III 4.4 . 4.5 . Postmortem portrait , woman holding baby 112 4.6 . " Field Where General Reynolds Fell " 120 4.7 . " The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter " 122 4.8 ...
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... burial . The mutilated bodies of soldiers , abandoned on the battlefield or hastily buried in unmarked graves , recalled the indignities inflicted on the corpses of the poor , African and Native Americans , and criminals . Thus the ...
... burial . The mutilated bodies of soldiers , abandoned on the battlefield or hastily buried in unmarked graves , recalled the indignities inflicted on the corpses of the poor , African and Native Americans , and criminals . Thus the ...
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... 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 soldiers in the absence of corpses . These ...
... 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 soldiers in the absence of corpses . These ...
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... burial squads , in truce , a week afterwards , search not the secluded spot— and there , at last , the Bravest Soldier crumbles in mother earth , unburied and unknown . " 12 Celebrating the decay of the soldier's corpse , Whit- man's ...
... burial squads , in truce , a week afterwards , search not the secluded spot— and there , at last , the Bravest Soldier crumbles in mother earth , unburied and unknown . " 12 Celebrating the decay of the soldier's corpse , Whit- man's ...
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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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John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, and the Culture of War Franny Nudelman Vista previa limitada - 2015 |
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