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This work will become quite important for Whitman scholars, but one of the reasons it is such an exciting volume is the contribution it makes to our overall understanding of attitudes toward and treatment of the body in the nineteenth century, particularly in the context of the Civil War. This work will appeal to a broad audience: certain anecdotes and pieces of information, while rather macabre (I challenge readers to forget the doctor who bound books in human skin), are so compelling that readers with a general interest in American history, the history of the Civil War, or in the history of medicine, will find it irresistible. --Martin T. Buinicki, author, Walt Whitman's Reconstruction

This work will become quite important for Whitman scholars, but one of the reasons it is such an exciting volume is the contribution it makes to our overall understanding of attitudes toward and treatment of the body in the nineteenth century, particularly in the context of the Civil War. This work will appeal to a broad audience: certain anecdotes and pieces of information, while rather macabre (I challenge readers to forget the doctor who bound books in human skin), are so compelling that readers with a general interest in American history, the history of the Civil War, or in the history of medicine, will find it irresistible. --Martin T. Buinicki, author, Walt Whitman's Reconstruction This is an exciting book. From the opening claim that Whitman's word 'specimen' is etymologically grounded in voyeurism, Afterlives of Specimens is arresting in its insights. Well-researched and original, it makes a major contribution to Whitman studies while also contributing to Civil War history and to our understanding of the intersection of science and mourning. --Kenneth Price, codirector, The Walt Whitman Archive

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Lindsay Tuggle teaches literature at Western Sydney University. A collection of work, Calenture, is forthcoming. She lives in Sydney, Australia.

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