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Autore: |
Salazar James B
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Titolo: |
Bodies of reform : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America / / James B. Salazar
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823/.809353 |
Soggetto topico: | American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Character in literature | |
Characters and characteristics in literature | |
National characteristics, American, in literature | |
Character - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century | |
Rhetoric - Political aspects - United States - History - 19th century | |
Political culture - United States - History - 19th century | |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century | |
Soggetto non controllato: | Bodies |
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 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
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, 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Bodies of reform ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8147-8653-7 |
0-8147-4132-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910813480703321 |
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