The genuine article : race, mass culture, and American literary manhood /

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Examines the formation of white middle-class manhood in the U.S.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gilmore, Paul, 1970-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.
Series:New Americanists.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > Male authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Popular culture > United States > History > 19th century.
Race awareness > United States > History > 19th century.
Masculinity > United States > History > 19th century.
Men > United States > History > 19th century.
Race awareness in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Race in literature.
Men in literature.
Littérature américaine > Écrivains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Conscience de race > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Masculinité > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Hommes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Conscience de race dans la littérature.
Masculinité dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
Hommes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
American literature > Male authors.
Masculinity.
Men.
Popular culture.
Race awareness.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue: staging manhood, writing manhood: cultural authority and the Indian body
  • "De Genewine Artekil": William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and abolitionism
  • The Indian in the museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and authentic manhood
  • A "RaraAvis in Terris": Poe's "Hop-Frog" and race in the antebellum freak show
  • Inward criminality and the shadow of race: the house of the seven gables and Daguerreotypy
  • Epilogue: electric chains.

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