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04552aam a2200589 i 4500 001 6D70606C4A8111E7A5A8299FDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170606010538 008 150309s2015 iaua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2015005562 020 $a 1609383672 020 $a 9781609383671 035 $a (OCoLC)904755910 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d ZCU $d COO $d NLM $d OCL $d IGA $d OCLCO $d ZLM $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E621 $b .W25 2015 060 00 $a WZ 112.5.N8 $b W266c 2015 082 00 $a 973.7/750922 $2 23 100 1 $a Wardrop, Daneen, $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Civil War nurse narratives, 1863-1870 / $c Daneen Wardrop. 264 1 $a Iowa City : $b University of Iowa Press, $c 2015. 300 $a 267 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index. 505 0 $a Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches: a readership -- Georgeanna Woolsey's Three Weeks at Gettysburg: connecting links -- Julia Dunlap's Notes of Hospital Life: women's rights, benevolence, and class -- Elvira Powers's Hospital Pencillings: travel, dissent, and cultural ties -- Anna Morris Holstein's Three Years in Field Hospitals of the Army of the Potomac: the dead line -- Sophronia Bucklin's In Hospital and Camp: rank-and-file nursing -- Julia S. Wheelock's The Boys in White: narrative construction. 520 $a Civil War Nurse Narratives, 1863--1870, examines the first wave of autobiographical narratives written by northern female nurses and published during the war and shortly thereafter, ranging from the well-known Louisa May Alcott to lesser-known figures such as Elvira Powers and Julia Wheelock. From the hospitals of Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, to the field at Gettysburg in the aftermath of the battle, to the camps bordering front lines during active combat, these nurse narrators reported on what they saw and experienced for an American audience hungry for tales of individual experience in the war. As a subgenre of war literature, the Civil War nurse narrative offered realistic reportage of medical experiences and declined to engage with military strategies or Congressional politics. Instead, nurse narrators chronicled the details of attending wounded soldiers in the hospital, where a kind of microcosm of US democracy-in-progress emerged. As the war reshaped the social and political ideologies of the republic, nurses labored in a workplace that reflected cultural changes in ideas about gender, race, and class. Through interactions with surgeons and other officials they tested women's rights convictions, and through interactions with formerly enslaved workers they wrestled with the need to live up to their own often abolitionist convictions and support social equality. By putting these accounts in conversation with each other, Civil War Nurse Narratives productively explores a developing genre of war literature that has rarely been given its due and that offers refreshing insights into women's contributions to the war effort. Taken together, these stories offer an impressive and important addition to the literary history of the Civil War. 611 27 $a American Civil War (1861-1865) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01351658 651 0 $a United States $x Medical care. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Medical care. 651 0 $a United States $x History $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $v Personal narratives. 651 0 $a United States $x Women. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Women. 650 0 $a Nurses $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 12 $a American Civil War. 650 12 $a Nurses. 650 22 $a Personal Narratives as Topic. 650 22 $a Military Nursing $x history. 650 22 $a History, 19th Century. 651 2 $a United States. 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x Civil War Period (1850-1877) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x Historical Events. $x Historical Events. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Medical care. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01013753 650 7 $a Nurses. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01041618 650 7 $a Women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01176568 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 2 $a Biography. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Personal narratives. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423843 941 $a 2 952 $l OZAX845 $d 20240525041336.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180106053057.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6D70606C4A8111E7A5A8299FDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IOOInitiate Another SILO Locator Search