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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
Joan Burbick
Healing the Republic: The Language of Health and the Culture of Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Joan Burbick
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.
367 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | August 26, 1994 |
ISBN13 | 9780521454346 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Dimensions | 158 × 237 × 29 mm · 640 g |
Series Editor | Gelpi, Albert |
Series Editor | Posnock, Ross |
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