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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Just as individual sorrow might span the divide between life and death , compassion — sorrow felt on behalf of others — bridged seemingly insurmountable forms of social difference . While mourners used 4 INTRODUCTION.
Just as individual sorrow might span the divide between life and death , compassion — sorrow felt on behalf of others — bridged seemingly insurmountable forms of social difference . While mourners used 4 INTRODUCTION.
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seemingly insurmountable forms of social difference . While mourners used corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality .
seemingly insurmountable forms of social difference . While mourners used corpses to help them materialize the intimacy between the living and the dead , reformers applied the precepts of death culture to the prob- lem of inequality .
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... that in sorrow one might discover forms of connection that transcend difference and inequality . Favoring abstraction over objectification , these descriptions abandon an antebellum investment in commemorative objects .
... that in sorrow one might discover forms of connection that transcend difference and inequality . Favoring abstraction over objectification , these descriptions abandon an antebellum investment in commemorative objects .
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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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