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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My editor Sian Hunter has offered invaluable insight and guidance at every turn ; David Hines has been unfailingly helpful ; and Paul Betz has brought his remarkable ear for language , and eye for detail , to the project , making this a ...
My editor Sian Hunter has offered invaluable insight and guidance at every turn ; David Hines has been unfailingly helpful ; and Paul Betz has brought his remarkable ear for language , and eye for detail , to the project , making this a ...
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In private settings , mourners used corpses to dra- matize an intimate and enduring relationship between the living and the dead that , in turn , provided a model for social harmony . While Puritans viewed the rotting corpse as a ...
In private settings , mourners used corpses to dra- matize an intimate and enduring relationship between the living and the dead that , in turn , provided a model for social harmony . While Puritans viewed the rotting corpse as a ...
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... reliance on actual bodies or their surrogates , turning one of the crises of war — the corpse's absence from the scene of commemoration - to advantage . Specimens W. J. Jarvis hoped that Brown's corpse would function 6 INTRODUCTION.
... reliance on actual bodies or their surrogates , turning one of the crises of war — the corpse's absence from the scene of commemoration - to advantage . Specimens W. J. Jarvis hoped that Brown's corpse would function 6 INTRODUCTION.
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Decid- ing to have Brown hanged , Governor Wise of Virginia defied those who warned that execution would turn the traitor Brown into a hero . As he told the Virginia legislature , " the threat of martyrdom is a threat against our peace ...
Decid- ing to have Brown hanged , Governor Wise of Virginia defied those who warned that execution would turn the traitor Brown into a hero . As he told the Virginia legislature , " the threat of martyrdom is a threat against our peace ...
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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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