Beyond the Civil War Hospital : : The Rhetoric of Healing and Democratization in Northern Reconstruction Writing, 1861-1882 / / Kirsten Twelbeck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Twelbeck, Kirsten,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Lettre
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (438 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; The Hopes and Fears of an Era --; The Recovering Nation --; Rituals of Recognition --; Encountering of Other, Redeeming the Self --; The Limits of Female Agency --; Retreat to a Village of Worlds --; Keeping the Struggle Alive --; The Misery of Blondes --; An Unfinished Story --; Works Cited
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839434659; 9783110719550; 9783110604252; 9783110603255; 9783110604184; 9783110603187; 9783110661545
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839434659?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kirsten Twelbeck.

Beyond the Civil War Hospital understands Reconstruction as a period of emotional turmoil that precipitated a struggle for form in cultural production. By treating selected texts from that era as multifaceted contributions to Reconstruction's »mental adaptation process« (Leslie Butler), Kirsten Twelbeck diagnoses individual conflicts between the »heart and the brain« only partly compensated for by a shared concern for national healing. By tracing each text's unique adaptation of the healing trope, she identifies surprising disagreement over racial equality, women's rights, and citizenship. The book pairs female and male white authors from the antislavery North, and brings together a broad range of genres.