![]() | Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Historiography; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Health aspects; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- Psychological aspects; United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–; The 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. Lisa A. Long teaches literature and gender and women's studies at North Central College. |
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