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Autore |
Gilmore Paul <1970-> |
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Titolo |
The genuine article [[electronic resource] ] : race, mass culture, and American literary manhood / / Paul Gilmore |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-06189-9 |
9786613061898 |
0-8223-8031-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - Male authors - History and criticism |
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
Race awareness - United States - History - 19th century |
Masculinity - United States - History - 19th century |
Men - United States - History - 19th century |
Men - United States - Intellectual life |
Race awareness in literature |
Masculinity in literature |
Race in literature |
Men in literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-266) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Prologue: staging manhood, writing manhood: cultural authority and the Indian body -- "De Genewine Artekil": William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and abolitionism -- The Indian in the museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and authentic manhood -- A "RaraAvis in Terris": Poe's "Hop-Frog" and race in the antebellum freak show -- Inward criminality and the shadow of race: the house of the seven gables and Daguerreotypy -- Epilogue: electric chains. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Examines the formation of white middle-class manhood in the U.S. |
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