The Civil War dead and American modernity

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The "ghastly spectacle": witnessing Civil War death -- Body images: the Civil War dead in visual culture -- Blood and ink: historicizing the Civil War dead -- Plotting mortality: the Civil War dead and the narrative imagination IntroductionSection I. The "Ghastly Spectacle": Witnessing Civil War Death Chapter 1: The problem of experience Chapter 2: Sense, affect, representationChapter 3: Faces, names, types, familiesChapter 4: Melancholy reflectionsSection II. Body Images: The Civil War Dead in Visual CultureChapter 1: Photography and the question of empathyChapter 2: The illustrated deadChapter 3: Lithography, history, allegoryChapter 4: Painting and the enigma of visibilitySection III. Blood and Ink: Historicizing the Civil War Dead Chapter 1: Objectivity, partisanship, nationalismChapter 2: The early years: Northern determinismChapter 3: The early years: Southern alienationChapter 4: Later years: The convergenceChapter 5: African American counterhistory Section IV. Plotting Mortality: The Civil War Dead and the Narrative ImaginatioChapter 1: Modernity, disenchantment, and the agons of realismChapter 2: "Grieve not so": Loss and the new womanChapter 3: Narratives ajar: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the refusal of closureChapter 4: Farewell, sacrificial hero Chapter 5: The returning deadEpilogue