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Book cover of The Afterlives of Specimens

The Afterlives of Specimens

Science, Mourning, and Whitman's Civil War

by Lindsay Tuggle
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

The Afterlives of Specimens explores the space between science and sentiment, the historical moment when the human cadaver became both lost love object and subject of anatomical violence. Walt Whitman witnessed rapid changes in relations between the living and the dead. In the space of a few decades,...
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