John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of WarUNC Press Books, 2004 - 226 pagini 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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... dead is a poor substitute for conversing with the living . My faithful longtime friends have buoyed me up across large distances : Thalia Stanley , Steven Sugarman , Kimberly Moses , Stephanie Hoch- man , Marcus Verhagen , Carol Lloyd ...
... dead is a poor substitute for conversing with the living . My faithful longtime friends have buoyed me up across large distances : Thalia Stanley , Steven Sugarman , Kimberly Moses , Stephanie Hoch- man , Marcus Verhagen , Carol Lloyd ...
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... the Civil War's most difficult prac- tical effect — the presence of so many dead bodies -- became the source of its greatest abstraction : national union and re- birth.2 The song " John Brown's Body , " from Introduction.
... the Civil War's most difficult prac- tical effect — the presence of so many dead bodies -- became the source of its greatest abstraction : national union and re- birth.2 The song " John Brown's Body , " from Introduction.
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... Body , " from which I take my title , provides a succinct and memorable example of this transformation . Singing " John Brown's body ... dead bodies their figural meanings . Throughout , my efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent ...
... Body , " from which I take my title , provides a succinct and memorable example of this transformation . Singing " John Brown's body ... dead bodies their figural meanings . Throughout , my efforts are indebted to the wealth of recent ...
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... dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing , studying , and disci- plining African American bodies . Antebellum mourners beautified the corpse and crafted surrogates for it , tokens that might fortify and ex- pand ...
... dead soldiers in relation to prewar conventions for representing , studying , and disci- plining African American bodies . Antebellum mourners beautified the corpse and crafted surrogates for it , tokens that might fortify and ex- pand ...
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... corpse as a reminder of pervasive sin , nineteenth- century mourners beautified and domesticated the dead . By washing , grooming , and posing the corpse , mourners made it look more lifelike and familiar . Taking photographs , painting ...
... corpse as a reminder of pervasive sin , nineteenth- century mourners beautified and domesticated the dead . By washing , grooming , and posing the corpse , mourners made it look more lifelike and familiar . Taking photographs , painting ...
Cuprins
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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