The good body : normalizing visions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, 1836-1867 - Etter, William M. (William Matthew) (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010)
"The good body" -- "A wonderful fitness of body and mind" : Emerson's transcendent corpus -- African-American slave narratives and the physical challenges of proslavery thought -- Constructing the disabled soldier in Civil War America -- In the tracks of the Jesuits : Francis Parkman's histories and the power of damaged bodies.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-305) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Santa Fe, Arg.: elibro, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to eLibro affiliated libraries.
Keywords: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Human body in literature; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Human body in popular culture; Electronic books