Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Chinn
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During the Civil War, hundreds of thousands of men were injured, and underwent amputation of hands, feet, limbs, fingers, and toes. As the war drew to a close, their disabled bodies came to represent the future of a nation that had been torn apart, and how it would be put back together again. In her...