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

ISBN-13: 9783837634655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 370 str.

Kirsten Twelbeck

Opis

Beyond the Civil War Hospital argues that Reconstruction was 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," 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 individual 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, bringing together a broad range of genres.

Recenzje

»Firmly grounded in American Literary Studies and Cultural Studies, 'Beyond the Civil War Hospital' convincingly shows how textual forms, and especially literary experimentations, can function as key sites for negotiating the political and societal future of the United States of America.« Marc Priewe, Amerikastudien / American Studies, 66 (2021)

O autorze

Twelbeck, KirstenKirsten Twelbeck (Prof. Dr.) teaches American Studies at the University of Regensburg. She is interested in American literature and culture from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century.