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• catalog abstract ""Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure up a face for the nation, Shirley Samuels explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine. Expressions of such a change appear in the allegorical configurations of nineteenth-century American novels, poetry, cartoons, and political rhetoric. Because of the visibility of war's assaults on the male body, masculine vulnerability became such a dominant facet of national life that it practically obliterated the visibility of other vulnerable bodies. The simultaneous advent of photography and the Civil War in the nineteenth century may be as influential as the conjoined rise of the novel and the middle class in the eighteenth century. Both advents herald a changed understanding of how a transformative media can promote new cultural and national identities. Bodies immobilized because of war's practices of wounding and death are also bodies made static for the camera's gaze. The look of shock on the faces of soldiers photographed in order to display their wounds emphasizes the new technology of war literally embodied in the impact of new imploding bullets on vulnerable flesh. Such images mark both the context for and a counterpoint to the "look" of Walt Whitman as he bends over soldiers in their hospital beds. They also provide a way to interpret the languishing male heroes of novels such as August Evans's Macaria (1864), a southern elegy for the sundering of the nation. This book crucially shows how visual iconography affects the shift in post-bellum gendered and racialized identifications of the nation."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13174152.
• catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Influence.".
• catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works.".
• catalog created "2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
• catalog description ""Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War investigates and explains the changing face of America during the Civil War. To conjure up a face for the nation, Shirley Samuels explores the body of the nation imagined both physically and metaphorically, arguing that the Civil War marks a dramatic shift from identifying the American nation as feminine to identifying it as masculine. Expressions of such a change appear in the allegorical configurations of nineteenth-century American novels, poetry, cartoons, and political rhetoric. Because of the visibility of war's assaults on the male body, masculine vulnerability became such a dominant facet of national life that it practically obliterated the visibility of other vulnerable bodies.".
• catalog description "Facing West -- Miscegenated America -- The face of the nation -- Women at war -- Lincoln's body.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-178) and index.".
• catalog description "The simultaneous advent of photography and the Civil War in the nineteenth century may be as influential as the conjoined rise of the novel and the middle class in the eighteenth century. Both advents herald a changed understanding of how a transformative media can promote new cultural and national identities. Bodies immobilized because of war's practices of wounding and death are also bodies made static for the camera's gaze. The look of shock on the faces of soldiers photographed in order to display their wounds emphasizes the new technology of war literally embodied in the impact of new imploding bullets on vulnerable flesh. Such images mark both the context for and a counterpoint to the "look" of Walt Whitman as he bends over soldiers in their hospital beds. They also provide a way to interpret the languishing male heroes of novels such as August Evans's Macaria (1864), a southern elegy for the sundering of the nation.".
• catalog description "This book crucially shows how visual iconography affects the shift in post-bellum gendered and racialized identifications of the nation."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xii, 186 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0195128974 (acid-free paper)".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Influence.".
• catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "973.7 21".
• catalog subject "E468.9 .S25 2004".
• catalog subject "Masculinity in art.".
• catalog subject "Masculinity in literature.".
• catalog subject "Nationalism United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Political culture United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Sex role Political aspects United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Signs and symbols Political aspects United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Women in art.".
• catalog subject "Women in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Facing West -- Miscegenated America -- The face of the nation -- Women at war -- Lincoln's body.".
• catalog title "Facing America : iconography and the Civil War / Shirley Samuels.".
• catalog type "text".