05140nam 2201093Ia 450 991079142540332120230725015819.00-8147-8653-70-8147-4132-010.18574/9780814786536(CKB)2560000000051950(EBL)866006(OCoLC)779828353(SSID)ssj0000413024(PQKBManifestationID)11265395(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413024(PQKBWorkID)10370332(PQKB)10824854(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326176(MiAaPQ)EBC866006(OCoLC)669500603(MdBmJHUP)muse4825(DE-B1597)547882(DE-B1597)9780814786536(Au-PeEL)EBL866006(CaPaEBR)ebr10420306(EXLCZ)99256000000005195020100517d2010 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBodies of reform[electronic resource] the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America /James B. SalazarNew York New York University Pressc20101 online resource (312 p.)America and the long 19th centuryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8147-4131-2 0-8147-4130-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Philanthropic Taste -- 2. Character Is Capital -- 3. Muscle Memory -- 4. “A Story Written on Her Face” -- 5. Character’s Conduct -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American national identity.Bodies of Reform reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century literature and culture by charting the development of the concept of “character” in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. By reading novelists such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body.America and the long 19th century.American fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismCharacter in literatureCharacters and characteristics in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureCharacterPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryRhetoricPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitics and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryBodies.States.United.category.century.character.charting.concept.culture.cultures.development.early-twentieth.fictional.from.genres.literature.mid-nineteenth.movements.nineteenth-century.pivotal.political.reconceives.reform.social.this.American fictionHistory and criticism.Character in literature.Characters and characteristics in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.CharacterPolitical aspectsHistoryRhetoricPolitical aspectsHistoryPolitical cultureHistoryPolitics and literatureHistory823/.809353Salazar James B1578358MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791425403321Bodies of reform3857671UNINA