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Beyond the Civil War Hospital : the Rhetoric of Healing and Democratization in Northern Reconstruction Writing, 1861-1882 / Kirsten Twelbeck

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Twelbeck, Kirsten, 1965-
Published
Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
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In English.
Contents
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Hopes and Fears of an Era -- The Recovering Nation -- Rituals of Recognition -- Encountering of Other, Redeeming the Self -- The Limits of Female Agency -- Retreat to a Village of Worlds -- Keeping the Struggle Alive -- The Misery of Blondes -- An Unfinished Story -- Works Cited
Summary
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.
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3839434653
9783839434659 (electronic bk.)
3837634655
9783837634655
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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