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New men : reconstructing the image of the veteran in late nineteenth-century American literature and culture /

"New Men uncovers the narrative of veteran reentry into civilian life and exposes a growing gap between how former soldiers of the Civil War saw themselves and the representations of them created by late nineteenth-century American society. This gap generated a new conception of the "veter...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Casey, John A., Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Reconstructing America (Series)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Demobilization, Disability, and the Competing Imagery of the Wounded Warrior and the Citizen-Soldier; 2. Veterans, Artisanal Manhood, and the Quest for Postwar Employment; 3. Narrating Traumatic Experience in Civil War Memoir; 4. The Glorious Burden of the Aging Civil War Veteran; 5. Racial Uplift and the Figure of the Black Soldier; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Series list.