Healing the Republic : the language of health and the culture of nationalism in nineteenth-century America
In this study Joan Burbick interprets nineteenth-century narratives of health in order to expose the conflicts underlying the creation of a national culture in America. The book confronts what Burbick sees as a certain fundamental uneasiness about democracy in America.
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1994
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994
X, 355 p. ; 24 cm.
9780521454346, 0521454344
1124063277
Introduction; Part I. Textures of Authority: 1. The common senses of America; 2. Writing the constitution of the body; Part II. Fictions of the Body Politic: 3. Riddles of the brain; 4. The tell-tale heart; 5. Nervous reports; 6. The recording eye; Conclusions: somatic politics; Notes; Index.