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



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Autore: Sorisio Carolyn <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879 / / Carolyn Sorisio Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2002
Edizione: 1st ed.
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.
Sommario/riassunto: Drawing on Euro- and African American authors of both genders who are notable for their aesthetic and political differences, Fleshing Out America demonstrates the surprisingly diverse literary conversation taking place as American authors attempted to reshape the politics of the body, which shaped the politics of the time.
Titolo autorizzato: Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-72593-9
9786612725937
0-8203-2637-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817287603321
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