Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937.(Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War)(Book review)

Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937. By Sarah E. Gardner. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.352 pp. $45.00/$19.95 paper.

Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War. By Lisa A. Long. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 344 pp. $55.00.

Both of these books cover troubled historical ground. Lisa A. Long's study of the convergence of medical and historical discourses in postbellum America charts the seismic project of recovering corporeality, or "rehabilitating" it, in ...

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