Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the grandest thing in the world
  • Philanthropic taste: race and character in Herman Melville's The confidence-man
  • Character is capital: manufacturing habit in Mark Twain's character-factory
  • Muscle memory: building the body politic of character in Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The National Police Gazette
  • A story written on her face: Pauline Hopkins's unmaking of the inherited character of race
  • Character's conduct: spaces of interethnic emulation in Jane Addams's charitable effort.