John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War

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UNC 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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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
Index
213
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Franny Nudelman is associate professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa.

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