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Healing the Republic: The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America

Healing the Republic: The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America

Burbick, Joan

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Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 82

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521106737
ISBN13: 9780521106733
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Apr 2 2009
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The creation of an American national culture in the nineteenth century coincided with a common belief that the emerging nation was diseased and in need of healing. Reading nineteenth-century narratives of health by a wide variety of authors, Burbick exposes the fears and conflicts underlying the creation of an American national culture. In studying these narratives of the body, this pioneering and comprehensive work concludes that a fundamental uneasiness about democracy may result in a collective, willful effort to control the body trope as a means of composing social order.

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