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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... individuals have brought the work along : the Nineteenth - Century American Women Writers Study Group provided inspiration as I began this project , and the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice has helped me to put some of the ...
... individuals have brought the work along : the Nineteenth - Century American Women Writers Study Group provided inspiration as I began this project , and the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice has helped me to put some of the ...
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... a whole . 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.
... a whole . 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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... individual death radiates through a larger community . Drawing on an evangelical commitment to the ongoing pres- ence of the dead , wartime nationalism frees itself of reliance on actual bodies or their surrogates , turning one of the ...
... individual death radiates through a larger community . Drawing on an evangelical commitment to the ongoing pres- ence of the dead , wartime nationalism frees itself of reliance on actual bodies or their surrogates , turning one of the ...
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... individual . Dissection , by con- trast , was a form of racial violence that represented the power of the anatomist to divorce body and identity , thus rendering the corpse useful to the community . It resembled slavery , which employed ...
... individual . Dissection , by con- trast , was a form of racial violence that represented the power of the anatomist to divorce body and identity , thus rendering the corpse useful to the community . It resembled slavery , which employed ...
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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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