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Other| June 01 2020 Brief Mention American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 416–422. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267972 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Brief Mention. American Literature 1 June 2020; 92 (2): 416–422. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267972 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture. By Allison M. Johnson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2019. ix, 208 pp. Cloth, $45.00; e-book available.Scholarship on the Civil War tends to either overemphasize canonical authors or stress the significance of “abstraction, disembodiment, reconciliation, and silence.” Taking a different tack, Johnson focuses on the war-forged human forms that memorialized and mediated internecine trauma in the vernacular discourse of periodicals, visual illustrations, diaries, and correspondences. Evidencing the “corporeal consequences” of mass violence for US political, social, and cultural identity, Johnson sorts these “disruptive bodies” into case study–based chapters that consider female personifications of the cause, “battle-tested African American soldiers,” amputee veterans, and women (metaphorically) wounded on the home front.Maryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War. By James A. Davis. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2019. xxvi, 358 pp. Cloth,... You do not currently have access to this content.