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'Juxtaposing detailed accounts of literary representations with “true stories” from soldiers who lost limbs, this compelling book presents valuable critical and historical perspectives on how amputation served as a visible reminder of loss during and after the Civil War.' Shirley Samuels, Cornell University 'From beginning to end, the book is written with brio and authority. It has powerful new things to say about the visual and literary culture of Reconstruction… Chinn writes an engaging and beautiful prose informed by her wide reading in the scholarship of Reconstruction. She knows the history and the literature of the period. She also knows a good deal about photography and other forms of visual representation. The book is quite moving, especially given its focus on scarred and marred bodies.' Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland 'Thought-provokingly written and well researched, this book offers more insights to consider to the growing historiography of Civil War disability.' Tim Talbott, Emerging Civil War blog

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Sarah E. Chinn is Professor of English at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of three other books: Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence (2000), The Invention of Modern Adolescence: The Children of Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America (2007), and Spectacular Men: Race, Gender, and Nation on the Early American Stage (2017), which won the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award for an exemplary work in the field of live theatre or performance from the American Theatre Library Association.

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