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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Salazar James B"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Bodies of reform [[electronic resource] ] : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America / / James B. Salazar"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"New York, : New York University Press, c2010"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-8147-8653-7"]
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[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (312 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"America and the long 19th century"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"823/.809353"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Character in literature"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Characters and characteristics in literature"]
[{"$nulls":4},"National characteristics, American, in literature"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Character - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Political culture - United States - History - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","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, "]
[{"$nulls":4},"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."]