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Healing the Republic: The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Healing the Republic The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in NineteenthCentury America - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Author: Joan Burbick
The creation of an American national culture in the nineteenth century coincided with a common belief that the emerging nation was diseased and in need of healing. Reading nineteenth-century narratives of health by a wide variety of authors, Burbick exposes the fears and conflicts underlying the creation of an American national culture. In study...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521454346
ISBN-10: 0521454344
Publication Date: 8/26/1994
Pages: 367
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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