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Bodies of reform : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America / / James B. Salazar



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Autore: Salazar James B Visualizza persona
Titolo: Bodies of reform : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America / / James B. Salazar Visualizza cluster
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
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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  Visualizza cluster
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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Serie: America and the long 19th century.