The good body
Subtitle: normalizing visions in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, 1836-1867
By: by William M. Etter
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781443818568
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The good body"; title: "A wonderful fitness of body and mind" : Emerson's transcendent corpus; title: African-American slave narratives and the physical challenges of proslavery thought; title: Constructing the disabled soldier in Civil War America; title: In the tracks of the Jesuits : Francis Parkman's histories and the power of damaged bodies.