TY - BOOK ID - 138864977 TI - Beyond the Civil War Hospital PY - 2018 SN - 3839434653 9783839434659 3837634655 9783837634655 PB - Bielefeld DB - UniCat KW - Reconstruction; Civil War; Literature; American Literature; Democracy; Healing; 19th Century; American Studies; American History; History of Colonialism; Literary Studies KW - 19th Century. KW - American History. KW - American Literature. KW - American Studies. KW - Civil War. KW - Democracy. KW - Healing. KW - History of Colonialism. KW - Literary Studies. KW - Literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138864977 AB - 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. ER -