Description
Book SynopsisTaking a look at the work of war writers and examining public records, journalism, and medical writing, this book brings the study of the Civil War into conversation with the critical work on bodily ontology and epistemology and theories of narrative and history.
Trade Review"This cleverly-written volume offers a fresh and sophisticated analysis of Civil War writing and of American medical and historical discourse."" *
American Literary Realism *
"Theoretically sophisticated and historically provocative,
Rehabilitating Bodies successfully lays bare 'the theoretical connection between corporeality and history as a field of discourse.'" *
Clio *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me
Chapter 1. Doctors' Bodies: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Patient Malingering
Chapter 2. Dead Bodies: Mourning Fictions and the Corporeity of Heaven
Chapter 3. Sanitized Bodies: The United States Sanitary Commission and Soul-Sickness
Chapter 4. Experimental Bodies: African American Writers and the Rehabilitation of War Work
Chapter 5. Soldiers' Bodies: Historical Fictions and the Sickness of Battle
Chapter 6. Nursing Bodies: Civil War Women and Postbellum Regeneration
Chapter 7. Historical Bodies: African American Scholars and the Discipline of History
Epilogue. Conjuring Civil War Bodies
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
