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Autore: | Sorisio Carolyn <1966-> |
Titolo: | Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879 [[electronic resource] /] / Carolyn Sorisio |
Pubblicazione: | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9/35 |
Soggetto topico: | American literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Human body in literature | |
Politics and literature - United States - History - 19th century | |
Race in literature | |
Sex role in literature | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: remapping the nineteenth-century literary landscape -- The body in the body politic: race, gender, and sexuality in nineteenth-century America -- The spectacle of the body: corporeality in Lydia Maria Child's antislavery writing -- Deflecting the public's gaze and disciplining desire: Harper's antebellum poetry and Reconstruction fiction -- Saxons and slavery: corporeal challenges to Ralph Waldo Emerson's Republic of the spirit -- The new face of empire: the price of Margaret Fuller's progressive feminist project -- "Who need be afraid of the merge?": Whitman's radical promise and the perils of seduction -- "Never before had my puny arm felt half so strong": corporeality and transcendence in Jacobs's incidents -- Epilogue: Martin R. Delany and the politics of ethnology. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879 |
ISBN: | 1-282-72593-9 |
9786612725937 | |
0-8203-2637-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910780492803321 |
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