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The Afterlives of Specimens: Science & Mourning in Whitman's America

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SPEAKER: Lindsay Tuggle
EVENT DATE: 01/24/2013
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 56 minutes

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Description: Lindsay Tuggle examines the Civil War narratives of Walt Whitman and Union surgeon John H. Brinton as alternative histories of war casualties: military and poetic, phantom and physical.

Read an interview with Kluge Fellow Lindsay Tuggle

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