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The good body : normalizing visions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, 1836-1867 / by William M. Etter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Etter, William M. (William Matthew)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Human body in literature.
- Popular culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Popular culture.
- Human body in popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Good Body: Normalizing Visions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 1836-1867 examines literary and cultural representations of so-called ""normal"" and ""abnormal"" bodies in the antebellum and Civil War-era United States and the ways i
- Contents:
- "The good body"
- "A wonderful fitness of body and mind" : Emerson's transcendent corpus
- African-American slave narratives and the physical challenges of proslavery thought
- Constructing the disabled soldier in Civil War America
- In the tracks of the Jesuits : Francis Parkman's histories and the power of damaged bodies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-305) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-58821-4
- 9786612588211
- 1-4438-1888-7
- OCLC:
- 828869786
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