The genuine article [[electronic resource] ] : race, mass culture, and American literary manhood / / Paul Gilmore

• Autore: Gilmore Paul <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Durham [N.C.], : Duke University Press, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/9286/09034
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Male authors - History and criticism; American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century; Race awareness - United States - History - 19th century; Masculinity - United States - History - 19th century; Men - United States - History - 19th century; Men - United States - Intellectual life; Race awareness in literature; Masculinity in literature; Race in literature; Men in literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-266) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Prologue: staging manhood, writing manhood: cultural authority and the Indian body -- "De Genewine Artekil": William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and abolitionism -- The Indian in the museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and authentic manhood -- A "RaraAvis in Terris": Poe's "Hop-Frog" and race in the antebellum freak show -- Inward criminality and the shadow of race: the house of the seven gables and Daguerreotypy -- Epilogue: electric chains.
• Sommario/riassunto: Examines the formation of white middle-class manhood in the U.S.
• Titolo autorizzato: The genuine article
• ISBN: 1-283-06189-9; 9786613061898; 0-8223-8031-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780024103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Americanists.