Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879 [[electronic resource] /] / Carolyn Sorisio

• Autore: Sorisio Carolyn <1966->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II