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Beyond the Civil War Hospital

The Rhetoric of Healing and Democratization in Northern Reconstruction Writing, 1861-1882

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Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's »mental adaptation process« (Leslie Butler), Kirsten Twelbeck diagnoses individual conflicts between the »heart and the brain« only partly compensated for by a shared concern for national healing. By tracing each text's unique adaptation of the healing trope, she identifies surprising disagreement over racial equality, women's rights, and citizenship. The book pairs female and male white authors from the antislavery North, and brings together a broad range of genres.weiterlesen

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Elektronisches Format: PDF

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-8394-3465-9 / 978-3839434659 / 9783839434659

Verlag: transcript

Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2018

Seiten: 438

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Kirsten Twelbeck

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