In The Soldier\'s Two Bodies , James M.
Personal Narratives by veterans of the American Revolution indicate that soldiers in the United States have been represented in two contrasting ways from the nation\'s first days: as heroic symbols of the body politic and. sovereignty.
Greene investigates an overlooked genre of early American literature--the Revolutionary War Veteran narrative--showing that it by turns both promotes and critiques a notion of Military heroism as the source of U.
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In The Soldier\'s Two Bodies , James M