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Fleshing Out America : Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879 /

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sorisio, Carolyn, 1966-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2002.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.