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Autore |
Sorisio Carolyn <1966-> |
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Titolo |
Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879 [[electronic resource] /] / Carolyn Sorisio |
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Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-72593-9 |
9786612725937 |
0-8203-2637-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Human body in literature |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century |
Race in literature |
Sex role in literature |
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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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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: remapping the nineteenth-century literary landscape -- The body in the body politic: race, gender, and sexuality in nineteenth-century America -- The spectacle of the body: corporeality in Lydia Maria Child's antislavery writing -- Deflecting the public's gaze and disciplining desire: Harper's antebellum poetry and Reconstruction fiction -- Saxons and slavery: corporeal challenges to Ralph Waldo Emerson's Republic of the spirit -- The new face of empire: the price of Margaret Fuller's progressive feminist project -- "Who need be afraid of the merge?": Whitman's radical promise and the perils of seduction -- "Never before had my puny arm felt half so strong": corporeality and transcendence in Jacobs's incidents -- Epilogue: Martin R. Delany and the politics of ethnology. |
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