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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... dead by a fence , Antietam , Maryland 108 4.2 . " 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 ...
... dead by a fence , Antietam , Maryland 108 4.2 . " 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 ...
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... dead is a poor substitute for conversing with the living . My faithful longtime friends have buoyed me up across large distances : Thalia Stanley , Steven Sugarman , Kimberly Moses , Stephanie Hoch- man , Marcus Verhagen , Carol Lloyd ...
... dead is a poor substitute for conversing with the living . My faithful longtime friends have buoyed me up across large distances : Thalia Stanley , Steven Sugarman , Kimberly Moses , Stephanie Hoch- man , Marcus Verhagen , Carol Lloyd ...
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... the Civil War's most difficult prac- tical effect — the presence of so many dead bodies -- became the source of its greatest abstraction : national union and re- birth.2 The song " John Brown's Body , " from Introduction.
... the Civil War's most difficult prac- tical effect — the presence of so many dead bodies -- became the source of its greatest abstraction : national union and re- birth.2 The song " John Brown's Body , " from Introduction.
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... 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 recognize that violence ...
... 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 recognize that violence ...
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... dead and , by extension , to love one another.5 In order to offer an alternative account of the Civil War dead , in which violence appears neither transcendent nor foreordained , I study the bodies of martyred soldiers in relation to ...
... dead and , by extension , to love one another.5 In order to offer an alternative account of the Civil War dead , in which violence appears neither transcendent nor foreordained , I study the bodies of martyred soldiers in relation to ...
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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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