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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... narrative that took extreme suffering to affirm the coun- try's exceptional status . Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that slavery was wrong while affirming an expansionist ...
... narrative that took extreme suffering to affirm the coun- try's exceptional status . Interpreting wartime carnage as an expression of divine wrath allowed Northerners to acknowledge that slavery was wrong while affirming an expansionist ...
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... vio- lence . This perspective , however , was rarely available in the culture of the Civil War . Narratives of divine retribution described soldiers as sur- rogates for a punishing God and , in this way INTRODUCTION II.
... vio- lence . This perspective , however , was rarely available in the culture of the Civil War . Narratives of divine retribution described soldiers as sur- rogates for a punishing God and , in this way INTRODUCTION II.
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... and then the next , these particulars help us to rediscover the weave of intention and result too quickly forgotten as wars assume their triumphal narrative shape . 1 THE BLOOD OF MILLIONS JOHN BROWN'S BODY , PUBLIC INTRODUCTION 13.
... and then the next , these particulars help us to rediscover the weave of intention and result too quickly forgotten as wars assume their triumphal narrative shape . 1 THE BLOOD OF MILLIONS JOHN BROWN'S BODY , PUBLIC INTRODUCTION 13.
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Contenido
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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