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Identifying marks : race, gender, and the marked body in nineteenth-century America /
"What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dick's Queequeg. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more challenging array of canonical and lesser-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dick's Queequeg. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more challenging array of canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. Jennifer Putzi shows how tattoos, scars, and brands can function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, thus blurring the borderline between the biological and social, the corporeal and spiritual."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820343952 0820343951 1280596023 9781280596025 9786613625854 661362585X |