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

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sorisio, Carolyn, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Sex role in literature.
Race in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
Politique et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
American literature
Human body in literature
Politics and literature
Race in literature
Sex role in literature
Bellettrie.
Amerikaans.
Menselijk lichaam.
Politiek.
Rassen (mens)
Sekserol.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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