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Rather than dwelling on the work of well-known authors, The Scars We Carve uncovers a powerful archive of Civil War?era print culture in which the individual body and its component parts, marked by violence or imbued with rhetorical power, testify to the horrors of war and the lasting impact of the internecine conflict. The Civil War brought about vast changes to the nation?s political, social, racial, and gender identities, and Johnson argues that print culture conveyed these changes to readers through depictions of nonnormative bodies. She focuses on images portrayed in the pages of newspapers and journals, in the left-handed writing of recent amputees who participated in penmanship contests, and in the accounts of anonymous poets and storytellers. Johnson reveals how allegories of the feminine body as a representation of liberty and the nation carved out a place for women in public and political realms, while depictions of slaves and black soldiers justified black manhood and citizenship in the midst of sectional crisis. By highlighting the extent to which the violence of the conflict marked the physical experience of American citizens, as well as the geographic and symbolic bodies of the republic, The Scars We Carve diverges from narratives of the Civil War that stress ideological abstraction, showing instead that the era?s print culture contains a literary and visual record of the war that is embodied and individualized.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780807170373","publication_date":"20190410","publisher":"LSU Press","slug":"the-scars-we-carve","subtitle":"Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture","title":"The Scars We Carve"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Civil War Era","score":0.7393,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027250","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Civil Wars","score":0.703,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT025010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Literature & History","score":0.7019,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Civil War Era","score":0.7393,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS027250","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Civil Wars","score":0.703,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"LIT025010","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Literature & History","score":0.7019,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"HIS036050","confidence_band":"high","label":"Civil War Era","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004020","confidence_band":"high","label":"American Lit Crit","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"LIT025010","confidence_band":"high","label":"Literature & History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Civil War Era","score":0.7393,"slug":"civil-war-era"},{"label":"Civil Wars","score":0.703,"slug":"civil-wars"},{"label":"Literature & History","score":0.7019,"slug":"literature-history"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers who enjoy Civil War Era","Good for readers interested in civil rights","Good for readers who enjoy Civil War Era and Civil Wars."],"related_lists":[{"intro":"","slug":"shelf-his027250-military-civil-wars-see-also-united-states-civil-war-period-1850-1877","title":"Military Civil Wars ( See Also United States Civil War (1850 1877 Books","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/lists/shelf-his027250-military-civil-wars-see-also-united-states-civil-war-period-1850-1877"}],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Gerri Willis"],"book_id":"9780063333659","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063333659.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":15.7733,"title":"Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063333659"},{"authors":["Bruce Catton"],"book_id":"9780618001873","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780618001873.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":14.3665,"title":"The Civil War","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780618001873"},{"authors":["Tony Horwitz"],"book_id":"9780679758334","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780679758334.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":14.3201,"title":"Confederates in the Attic","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780679758334"},{"authors":["Amy Murrell Taylor"],"book_id":"9780807861868","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780807861868.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":14.3073,"title":"The Divided Family in Civil War America","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780807861868"},{"authors":["Amy Murrell Taylor"],"book_id":"9781469643625","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781469643625.jpg?v=20260402T191500Z-bisacv2site-fullset%3A2026-04-05T16%3A15%3A58Z","score":14.2961,"title":"Embattled Freedom","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781469643625"},{"authors":["W. 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