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Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as 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« (Leslie Butler), 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 unique 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, and brings together a broad range of genres.
Price: $55.00
Pages: 438
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Lettre
Publication Date:
25 April 2017
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837634655
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
»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.«
Kirsten 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.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgements 7
The Hopes and Fears of an Era 11
The Recovering Nation 33
Rituals of Recognition 45
Encountering of Other, Redeeming the Self 83
The Limits of Female Agency 135
Retreat to a Village of Worlds 225
Keeping the Struggle Alive 273
The Misery of Blondes 341
An Unfinished Story 393
Works Cited 405