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New Men: Reconstructing the Image of the Veteran in Late-Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture (Reconstructing America) by Casey, John A., Jr., John A. Casey is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This Intriguing Exploration Of The Post-civil War Period Through Its Fiction And Nonfiction Illuminates How The Era Spawned A New Understanding Of War Veterans That Lives On Today. Scholars Of The Civil War Era Have Commonly Assumed That Veterans Of The Union And Confederate Armies Effortlessly Melted Back Into Society And That They Adjusted To The Demands Of Peacetime With Little Or No Difficulty. Yet The Path These Soldiers Followed On The Road To Reintegration Was Far More Tangled. New Men Unravels The Narrative Of Veteran Reentry Into Civilian Life And Exposes The Growing Gap Between How Former Soldiers Saw Themselves And The Representations Of Them Created By Late-nineteenth Century American Society.^ In The Early Years Following The Civil War, The Concept Of The Veteran Functioned As A Marker For What Was Assumed By Soldiers And Civilians Alike To Be A Temporary Social Status That Ended Definitively With Army Demobilization And The Successful Attainment Of Civilian Employment. But In Later Postwar Years This Term Was Reconceptualized As A New Identity That Is Still Influential Today. It Came To Be Understood That Former Soldiers Had Crossed A Threshold Through Their Experienc
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- Author
- Casey, John A., Jr., John A. Casey
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780823265411
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Psychology, Literary Fiction
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