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Bodies of reform : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America /
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 19th to the early 20th centur...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2010.
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| Colección: | America and the long 19th century.
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| 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.