REHABILITATING BODIES

Rehabilitating Bodies Health, History, and the American Civil War Lisa A. Long This is a fascinating, wide-ranging, and original book, and the first to examine the mutual constitution of bodies and historical meaning in the Civil War era.--Thomas Lutz, University of Iowa This cleverly-written volume offers a fresh and sophisticated analysis of Civil War writing and of American medical and historical discourse.--American Literary Realism Theoretically sophisticated and historically provocative, Rehabilitating Bodies successfully lays bare the theoretical connection between corporeality and history as a field of discourse.--Clio The American Civil War is one of the most documented, romanticized, and perennially reenacted events in American history. In Rehabilitating Bodies