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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... corpse and other dead bodies their figural meanings . Throughout , my efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent scholarship that can be loosely grouped under the rubric " Vio- lence Studies . " As this field grows , we come to ...
... corpse and other dead bodies their figural meanings . Throughout , my efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent scholarship that can be loosely grouped under the rubric " Vio- lence Studies . " As this field grows , we come to ...
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... corpse and crafted surrogates for it , tokens that might fortify and ex- pand the bonds of community . The corpses of marginal people , by con- trast , were frequently dismembered and denied the privilege of a proper burial . The ...
... corpse and crafted surrogates for it , tokens that might fortify and ex- pand the bonds of community . The corpses of marginal people , by con- trast , were frequently dismembered and denied the privilege of a proper burial . The ...
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... corpse -actual and imagined — to the formation of political community in the nineteenth century . In private settings , mourners used corpses to dra- matize an intimate and enduring relationship between the living and the dead that , in ...
... corpse -actual and imagined — to the formation of political community in the nineteenth century . In private settings , mourners used corpses to dra- matize an intimate and enduring relationship between the living and the dead that , in ...
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... corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of ... corpses went unidentified . Northerners found well - tried ritu- als suddenly antiquated as they grieved for dead ...
... corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of ... corpses went unidentified . Northerners found well - tried ritu- als suddenly antiquated as they grieved for dead ...
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... corpse's absence and , by extension , the mass scale of death in war . Whitman's wartime writing grapples with the challenge battlefield death posed to memorial conventions , and signals the emergence of new ways of con- ceptualizing ...
... corpse's absence and , by extension , the mass scale of death in war . Whitman's wartime writing grapples with the challenge battlefield death posed to memorial conventions , and signals the emergence of new ways of con- ceptualizing ...
Contenido
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 |
213 | |
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