02958nam 2200649Ia 450 991045560530332120200520144314.01-282-72593-997866127259370-8203-2637-2(CKB)111087027980720(OCoLC)53979189(CaPaEBR)ebrary10408664(SSID)ssj0000155963(PQKBManifestationID)11155807(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155963(PQKBWorkID)10114919(PQKB)11063022(MiAaPQ)EBC3038885(MdBmJHUP)muse14573(Au-PeEL)EBL3038885(CaPaEBR)ebr10408664(CaONFJC)MIL272593(EXLCZ)9911108702798072020020129d2002 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879[electronic resource] /Carolyn SorisioAthens University of Georgia Pressc20021 online resource (312 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8203-2357-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.American literature19th centuryHistory and criticismHuman body in literaturePolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryRace in literatureSex role in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Human body in literature.Politics and literatureHistoryRace in literature.Sex role in literature.810.9/35Sorisio Carolyn1966-909173MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455605303321Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-18792033635UNINA