New Men : : Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture / / John A. Casey.
Scholars of the Civil War era have commonly assumed that veterans of the Union and Confederate armies effortlessly melted back into society and that they adjusted to the demands of peacetime with little or no difficulty. Yet the path these soldiers followed on the road to reintegration was far more...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reconstructing America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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