LEADER 05140nam 2201093Ia 450 001 9910791425403321 005 20230725015819.0 010 $a0-8147-8653-7 010 $a0-8147-4132-0 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814786536 035 $a(CKB)2560000000051950 035 $a(EBL)866006 035 $a(OCoLC)779828353 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000413024 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11265395 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000413024 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10370332 035 $a(PQKB)10824854 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326176 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866006 035 $a(OCoLC)669500603 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4825 035 $a(DE-B1597)547882 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814786536 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL866006 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10420306 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000051950 100 $a20100517d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBodies of reform$b[electronic resource] $ethe rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America /$fJames B. Salazar 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 225 1 $aAmerica and the long 19th century 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4131-2 311 $a0-8147-4130-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Philanthropic Taste -- $t2. Character Is Capital -- $t3. Muscle Memory -- $t4. ?A Story Written on Her Face? -- $t5. Character?s Conduct -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aFrom the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable ?stuff,? has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American national identity.Bodies of Reform reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century literature and culture by charting the development of the concept of ?character? in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. By reading novelists such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body. 410 0$aAmerica and the long 19th century. 606 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCharacter in literature 606 $aCharacters and characteristics in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aCharacter$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 610 $aBodies. 610 $aStates. 610 $aUnited. 610 $acategory. 610 $acentury. 610 $acharacter. 610 $acharting. 610 $aconcept. 610 $aculture. 610 $acultures. 610 $adevelopment. 610 $aearly-twentieth. 610 $afictional. 610 $afrom. 610 $agenres. 610 $aliterature. 610 $amid-nineteenth. 610 $amovements. 610 $anineteenth-century. 610 $apivotal. 610 $apolitical. 610 $areconceives. 610 $areform. 610 $asocial. 610 $athis. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCharacter in literature. 615 0$aCharacters and characteristics in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aCharacter$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory 676 $a823/.809353 700 $aSalazar$b James B$01578358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791425403321 996 $aBodies of reform$93857671 997 $aUNINA