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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780024103321

Autore

Gilmore Paul <1970->

Titolo

The genuine article [[electronic resource] ] : race, mass culture, and American literary manhood / / Paul Gilmore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-283-06189-9

9786613061898

0-8223-8031-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

810.9/9286/09034

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the formation of white middle-class manhood in the U.S.