Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

by Sarah E. Chinn

During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the war drew to a close, their disabled bodies came to represent the future of a nation that had been torn apart, and how it would be put back together again. In her authoritative and engagingly written new book, Sarah Chinn claims that amputation spoke both corporeally and metaphorically to radical white writers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009442694
• ISBN13: 9781009442695
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.7"