The Scars We Carve – Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture Johnson

The Scars We CarveBodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture\nAuthor(s): Allison M. Johnson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Louisiana State University Press, United States\nImprint: Louisiana State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780807170373, 978-0807170373\nSynopsis\nIn The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture, Allison M. Johnson considers the ubiquitous images of bodies- white and black, male and female, soldier and civilian- that appear throughout newspapers, lithographs, poems, and other texts circulated during and in the decades immediately following the Civil War. Rather than dwelling on the work of well-known authors, The Scars We Carve uncovers a powerful archive of Civil War- era print culture in which the individual body and its component parts, marked by violence or imbued with rhetorical power, testify to the horrors of war and the lasting impact of the internecine conflict. \n\n The Civil War brought about vast changes to the nation's political, soci.