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Papers by Jane Schultz

Deep Blue (University of Michigan), 1988

"Women at the Front" recovers and reconstructs the narrative history of women who were ... more "Women at the Front" recovers and reconstructs the narrative history of women who were battlefront participants and observers during the Civil War. I explore the impact of nineteenth-century assumptions about femininity on historical genres by examining the development of gender consciousness in the diaries, memoirs, and letters of female nurses, camp visitors, soldiers, and intelligence workers. I suggest that women's published narratives of warfront experience provided consumers of domestic fiction with alternative heroines. Confederate and Union women sought a form for self-expression that was manifested in testimonial writing. In these accounts women drew on historical and fictional narrative techniques: their description of events was secondary to the development of narrative voice and audience. They did not see themselves writing traditional history, but as guardians of memory they saw historical value in their stories. Through varying personal inscriptions of history they gave textual shape to the formlessness of personal experience. The largest group of women at the front were nurses. Nineteenth-century culture regarded nursing as a natural extension of woman's nature, making nursing a socially approved activity in both sections. Nurses' had difficulty adapting to military discipline because they felt it compromised patient care. But writing became a transformational act: their narratives indicate that warfront life increased their autonomy as individuals. Campfollowers were women who made extended conjugal visits to camp. They were not usually prostitutes, as military historians have suggested. Confederate women visited camp often because of their proximity to the front. Union women, deterred by distance, made fewer, longer trips. Visitors' accounts indicate that their presence in camp was less embattled than nurses'. Without confrontations to hinder them, their narratives are more imaginatively formed; audience and narrative voice are more loosely conceived. Female soldiers and intelligence workers were the most controversial group of women at the front. Cultural critics discredited their renunciation of convention and contributed to their historical obliteration. In the few memoirs that survive, writers create audiences who share their own malleable conceptions of gender identity. Although each group of warfront women was prone to fictionalizing, the group with least social approval constructed an imaginary world in which its actions had legitimacy and social significance.Ph.D.American studiesWomen's studiesAmerican historyUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/161972/1/8821648.pd

University of Georgia Press eBooks, 2016

The Journal of American History, Mar 1, 2006

The Journal of American History, Jun 1, 2007

Section 4 In summer 2014 the Frederick Douglass Papers, a unit of the Indiana University School o... more Section 4 In summer 2014 the Frederick Douglass Papers, a unit of the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indianapolis’s Institute of American Thought published the first-ever scholarly edition of Douglass’s sole work of fiction, his 1853 novella, The Heroic Slave. With the support of the IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, the Indiana University New Currents Program, a number of campus units, and Indiana Humanities, a scholarly symposium, "Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave and the American Revolutionary Tradition," was held on the IUPUI campus on October 9 and 10, 2014 to observe this event and to reassess the historical and literary significance of The Heroic Slave. The two-day symposium was organized by John R. Kaufman-McKivigan, Editor of the Douglass Papers, and Bessie House-Soremekun, Chair of the IUPUI Africana Studies Program. Nine internationally recognized scholars in the disciplines of history, literature, and Africana Studies attended this two...

Oxford University Press eBooks, Apr 3, 2023

The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Sep 1, 2022

Dressing up for War, 2001

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004

Curing Clemens Bizarre beliefs on health and healing Why did America's 19th century master of sat... more Curing Clemens Bizarre beliefs on health and healing Why did America's 19th century master of satire repeatedly play the boob when he sought medical help? How was the creator of the Connecticut Yankee (who exploited the cupidity of an entire empire) duped by the medical confidence men of his era? K. Patrick Ober, an internist and associate dean at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, takes on this knotty problem in Mark Twain and Medicine: Any Mummery Will Cure. As much a history of medical sectarianism as an extended chart on Samuel Clemens, wife Olivia Livy Langdon, and daughters Susy, Jean, and Clara, the book joins a growing list of medical biographies that illuminate the complex intersections between physicians, medical subjects, and 19th century beliefs about illness and cure.

Although many of Lola Ridge's poems champion the causes of minorities and the disenfranchised... more Although many of Lola Ridge's poems champion the causes of minorities and the disenfranchised, it is too easy to state that politics were the sole reason for her neglect. A simple look at well-known female poets who often wrote about social or political issues during Ridge's lifetime, such as Edna St. Vincent Millay and Muriel Rukeyser, weakens such a claim. Furthermore, Ridge's five books of poetry illustrate that many of her poems focused on themes beyond the political or social. The decisions by critics to focus on selections of Ridge's poems that do not display her ability to employ multiple aesthetics in her poetry have caused them to present her work one-dimensionally. Likewise, politically motivated critics often overlook aesthetic experiments that poets like Ridge employ in their poetry. Few poets during Ridge's time made use of such drastically varied styles, and because her work resists easy categorization (as either traditional or avant-garde), her poe...

This project contributes to the improvement of the healing encounter between physician and patien... more This project contributes to the improvement of the healing encounter between physician and patient and broadens the scope of medical ethics via application of a methodology that creatively communicates patient experience. Contemporary medical training and socialization can create emotional distance between patients and physicians, which has both positive and negative effects. A physician's "detached concern" often renders patients' ways of knowing irrelevant to their care. This has a negative effect on patient autonomy, trust, and the healing encounter in general. Herwaldt (2008) developed a pedagogical tool of distilling patient interviews in narrative form into "found poems," in which the patient experience is expressed in verse; Herwaldt contends that the resulting poems hold the possibility of cultivating empathy in medical practitioners. My research extends Herwaldt's work with a new set of ten patients currently in cancer treatment, translating ...

In three of J. M. Coetzee's recent novels, Disgrace (1999), Elizabeth Costello (2003), and Sl... more In three of J. M. Coetzee's recent novels, Disgrace (1999), Elizabeth Costello (2003), and Slow Man (2005), the South African author explores notions of authorship and challenges the possibilities of the sympathetic imagination. The notion of the sympathetic imagination has roots in Romanticism, and it connotes inhabiting another in order to understand or interpret. Romantic poet John Keats described the poet as "continually in for [sic] and filling some other body" (Letter to Richard Woodhouse), and Coetzee addresses the notion of the sympathetic imagination in his work. There are two facets of the sympathetic imagination: that which governs social relations and that which authors and creative minds attempt to claim as a driving force behind their work. It is important not to conflate the two separate facets of the sympathetic imagination. The social facet encourages good citizenship and allows humankind to behave in humane ways. It counters one's private desire f...

One does not get a sense of this diversity when reading the records of the organization.

Social History Of Medicine, 2021

Civil War Book Review, 2018

Literary scholars give far less attention to the Civil War and especially Reconstruction than do ... more Literary scholars give far less attention to the Civil War and especially Reconstruction than do historians. Nonetheless, a revival is underway. Timothy Sweet's Literary Cultures of the Civil War collects some of the best work being done. His superb introduction traces developments from the centennial to recent sesquicentennial celebrations of the Civil War. For the centennial, Robert Penn Warren, Daniel Aaron, and Edmund Wilson produced synthetic narratives that caught the attention of a wide public. Writing in the midst of the Civil Rights movement that C. Vann Woodward called a "second Reconstruction," Warren saw the Civil War and Reconstruction in terms of tragedy for their failure to create a "union, which is in the deepest sense a community" (4). Aaron attributed the Civil War's failure to produce a literary epic to the paradox that "Without the Negro, there would have been no Civil War, yet he figured only peripherally in the War literature" (227). As Jillian Spivey Caddell points out, Aaron's thesis anticipated the claim of Toni Morrison and others that a silenced presence of African Americans constitutes American literature. Harboring fears of ideological deployments of state power in the midst of the Cold War, Wilson constructed a narrative in which philosophical pragmatism and literary realism arose from the Civil War's patriotic gore.

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction

Maine History, 2014

Harriet Eaton was one of the several nurses from Maine to be sent by the Maine Camp Hospital Asso... more Harriet Eaton was one of the several nurses from Maine to be sent by the Maine Camp Hospital Association (MCHA) to Virginia to help soldiers on the Civil War battlefields. She worked two tours for the MCHA, providing important relief services to soldiers. Courtesy of the American Baptist Historical Society .

In relationship-centered care, the relationship formed between physician and patient is critical ... more In relationship-centered care, the relationship formed between physician and patient is critical to the creation of positive patient outcomes and patient satisfaction (Inui, 1996; Laine & Davidoff, 1996; Tresolini, 1994). Medical educators have increasingly utilized Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) to assess medical students' abilities to utilize a relationship-centered approach in clinical interviewing. OSCEs, however, have recently come under scrutiny as critics contend that the overly scripted and standardized nature of the OSCE may not accurately reflect how medical students build and maintain relationships with patients. Although some studies have looked at how standardized patients help teach medical students interviewing skills, few studies have looked specifically at how the structured nature of the OSCE may influence relationship-building between standardized patients and medical students. Therefore, this study asks the question "How is relationsh...

This thesis examines Mark Twain's use of the dialectic between the characters Huck and Jim to... more This thesis examines Mark Twain's use of the dialectic between the characters Huck and Jim to illuminate Jim's humanity in the classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Over the course of their adventure, Huck learns that Jim is a human being and not property. This realization leads Huck to choose to assist Jim in his escape from captivity, and risk eternal damnation according to his religious beliefs. Huck's decision is driven by the friendship that develops between him and his fellow fugitive on their adventure. Jim's kindness and stewardship also provide a stark contrast to the treachery of the characters on the banks of the river. Twain thus crafts a message that slavery and race discrimination are wrong without taking the tone of an abolitionist, combining an amusing children's story with a profound social message. Although definitive proof of his intention to do so has never been found, human friendship is the sliver of common ground Twain used to reach...