Bodies of Reform : The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Salazar, James B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2010.
Colección:America and the long 19th century.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Political culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Rhetoric > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Character > Political aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Character in literature.
American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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.

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