{"product_id":"rehabilitating-bodies-health-history-and-the-american-civil-war-hardback-9780812237481","title":"Rehabilitating Bodies; Health, History, and the American Civil War (Hardback) 9780812237481","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRehabilitating Bodies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHealth, History, and the American Civil War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLisa A. Long (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812237481\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 December 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages, 6 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.668 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This cleverly-written volume offers a fresh and sophisticated analysis of Civil War writing and of American medical and historical discourse.\"\" (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Literary Realism\u003c\/i\u003e) \"Theoretically sophisticated and historically provocative, \u003ci\u003eRehabilitating Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e successfully lays bare 'the theoretical connection between corporeality and history as a field of discourse.'\" (\u003ci\u003eClio\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In \u003ci\u003eRehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e, Lisa A. Long charts how its extreme carnage dictated the Civil War's development into a lasting trope that expresses not only altered social, economic, and national relationships but also an emergent self-consciousness. Looking to a wide range of literary, medical, and historical texts, she explores how they insist on the intimate relationship between the war and a variety of invisible wounds, illnesses, and infirmities that beset Americans throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and plague us still today.\u003cbr\u003e Long shows how efforts to narrate credibly the many and sometimes illusory sensations elicited by the Civil War led writers to the modern discourses of health and history, which are premised on the existence of a corporeal and often critical reality that practitioners cannot know fully yet believe in nevertheless. Professional thinkers and doers both literally and figuratively sought to rehabilitate-to reclothe, normalize, and stabilize-Civil War bodies and the stories that accounted for them.\u003cbr\u003e Taking a fresh look at the work of canonical war writers such as Louisa May Alcott and Stephen Crane while examining anew public records, journalism, and medical writing, Long brings the study of the Civil War into conversation with recent critical work on bodily ontology and epistemology and theories of narrative and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Doctors' Bodies: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Patient Malingering\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Dead Bodies: Mourning Fictions and the Corporeity of Heaven\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Sanitized Bodies: The United States Sanitary Commission and Soul-Sickness\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Experimental Bodies: African American Writers and the Rehabilitation of War Work\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Soldiers' Bodies: Historical Fictions and the Sickness of Battle\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Nursing Bodies: Civil War Women and Postbellum Regeneration\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Historical Bodies: African American Scholars and the Discipline of History\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Conjuring Civil War Bodies\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555707515160,"sku":"9780812237481","price":47.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/rehabilitating-bodies-health-history-and-the-american-civil-war-hardback-9780812237481","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}