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Lincoln's body : a cultural history
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- Creator
- Richard Wightman Fox
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780393065305, 0393065308
- OCLC
- ocn891324449
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I. The public body (1840/1865) -- Lincoln's body politic -- Last words, last breath -- The martyr and his relics -- African Americans and their emancipator -- Rolling funeral, living corpse -- Part II. The enshrined body (1865/1909) -- The first Lincoln memorials -- Monuments for the ages -- Black emancipation, White reunion -- Celebrating the Centenary of 1909 -- Part III. The national body (1909/2015) -- Solidifying the Lincoln cult: two memorials -- The hero on screen, from Griffith to Gage -- In whose symbolic shadow we stand -- Reviving the emancipator -- Lincoln sightings at the bicentenary: Obama, Disney, Spielberg