04802nam 2200781Ia 450 991046323520332120200520144314.00-8122-0266-X10.9783/9780812202663(CKB)2670000000418226(OCoLC)859160789(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748489(SSID)ssj0000985638(PQKBManifestationID)11549575(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000985638(PQKBWorkID)10932802(PQKB)11326421(MiAaPQ)EBC3442100(MdBmJHUP)muse29211(DE-B1597)449122(OCoLC)1013938326(OCoLC)979580240(DE-B1597)9780812202663(Au-PeEL)EBL3442100(CaPaEBR)ebr10748489(CaONFJC)MIL682391(EXLCZ)99267000000041822620030729d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRehabilitating bodies[electronic resource] health, history, and the American Civil War /Lisa A. LongPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20041 online resource (339 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51109-8 0-8122-3748-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-315) and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Year That Trembled and Reel'd beneath Me -- 1 Doctors' Bodies: Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and Patient Malingering -- 2 Dead Bodies: Mourning Fictions and the Corporeity of Heaven -- 3 Sanitized Bodies: The United States Sanitary Commission and Soul Sickness -- 4 Experimental Bodies: African American Writers and the Rehabilitation of War Work -- 5 Soldiers' Bodies: Historical Fictions and the Sickness of Battle -- 6 Nursing Bodies: Civil War Women and Postbellum Regeneration -- 7 Historical Bodies: African American Scholars and the Discipline of History -- Epilogue: Conjuring Civil War Bodies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- AcknowledgmentsThe American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War, 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.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.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.OntologyOntology in literatureKnowledge, Theory ofKnowledge, Theory of, in literatureHuman body (Philosophy)Human body in literatureUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865HistoriographyUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Health aspectsUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Psychological aspectsUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Literature and the warElectronic books.Ontology.Ontology in literature.Knowledge, Theory of.Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.Human body (Philosophy)Human body in literature.973.7Long Lisa A1033977MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463235203321Rehabilitating bodies2478711UNINA