Abstract
Demonstrates how Whitman's Memoranda "shares with the nursing narratives that preceded his work some important aspects of style and tone," and offers a "cultural assessment" of Whitman's book "within the context of those previous memoirs, utilizing themes of democracy, the typical American, motherhood, and . . . the eroticism that forms between nurse and patient"; the extended comparisons are focused on Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches, Georgeanna Woolsesy's Three Weeks at Gettysburg, and Sarah Emma Edmonds's Nurse and Spy in the Union Army.
How to Cite:
Wardrop, D., (2005) “Civil War Nursing Narratives: Whitman's Memoranda During the War and Eroticism”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 23(1/2), 26-47. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1782
Rights: Copyright © 2005 Daneen Wardrop
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