Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
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During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the war drew to a close, their disabled bodies came to represent the future of a nation that had been torn apart, and how it would be put back together again. In her authoritative and engagingly written new book, Sarah Chinn claims that amputation spoke both corporeally and metaphorically to radical white writers,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1009442694
ISBN13:9781009442695
Release Date:October 2024
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:270 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"
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