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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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. JOHN BROWN'S BODY INTRODUCTION Narration closes histories , narration heals - and for.
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. JOHN BROWN'S BODY INTRODUCTION Narration closes histories , narration heals - and for.
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... violence . Reassuring soldiers who contemplated imminent death that their pain would serve a transcendent purpose , the song also inspired Julia Ward Howe's " Battle Hymn of the Republic , " which continues to fortify the American ...
... violence . Reassuring soldiers who contemplated imminent death that their pain would serve a transcendent purpose , the song also inspired Julia Ward Howe's " Battle Hymn of the Republic , " which continues to fortify the American ...
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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. 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 ...
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. 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 ...
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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. Specimens W. J. Jarvis hoped that Brown's corpse would ... violent social order ; postmortem dissection was the final insult directed at bodies long subject to abuse.15 Dissection ...
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. Specimens W. J. Jarvis hoped that Brown's corpse would ... violent social order ; postmortem dissection was the final insult directed at bodies long subject to abuse.15 Dissection ...
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Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. rogates for a punishing God and , in this way , mediated the government's relation to the spectacle of mass death . Viewed in this light , the war dead not only redressed the sin ...
Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War Franny Nudelman. rogates for a punishing God and , in this way , mediated the government's relation to the spectacle of mass death . Viewed in this light , the war dead not only redressed the sin ...
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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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