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The good body : normalizing visions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, 1836-1867 / by William M. Etter.

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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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