| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

John Brown's Body: Slavery, Violence, & the Culture of War. By Franny Nudelman. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii, 226 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2883-1. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5557-X.)

John Brown's Body explores the cultural use and abuse of bodies against the backdrop of civil war. Based on the notion that wartime nationalism was rendered through a public process of abstracting violence, Franny Nudelman interprets historical, literary, photographic, and cinematic texts beginning with John Brown's execution and ending with Emmet Till's murdered body. Though Brown and the faceless Civil War dead achieved a martyred sanctity, Brown's African American henchmen enjoyed no such apotheosis. Instead, the bodies of John Copeland and Shields Green landed in the anatomy lab. Denied the reward of corpses cherished in nineteenth-century familial circles, these bodies and those of the socially disenfranchised advanced state authority through science, not sentiment.

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