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Bodies of Reform – The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America: America and the Long 19th Century

Autor James B. Salazar
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 2010
From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff”, has had a long and chequered history giving shape to the American national identity.Bodies of Reform re-conceives 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-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. By reading novelists such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body.
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ISBN-13: 9780814741313
ISBN-10: 0814741312
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 201 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: MI – New York University
Seria America and the Long 19th Century


Cuprins

Contents; Acknowledgments vi; Introduction: The Grandest Thing in the World 1; 1. Philanthropic Taste: Race and Character in Herman Melville’s The Confidence-Man 43; 2. Character is Capital: Manufacturing Habit in Mark Twain’s Character-Factory 78; 3. Muscle Memory: Building the Body Politic of Character in Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the National Police Gazette 139; 4. “A Story Written on Her Face”: Pauline Hopkins’s Unmaking of the Inherited Character of Race 193; 5. Character’s Conduct: Spaces of Interethnic Emulation in Jane Addams’s “Charitable Effort” 258; Notes 310; Index; About the Author 384

Recenzii

“Salazar’s splendid study gives this term a cultural history, and in the process shows how the rhetoric of character has profound effects on what we do from child-rearing, to physical exercise, to racial exclusion, to immigrant inclusion, and the contours of democratic citizenship itself.”Karen Sanchez-Eppler, Amherst College

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Charts the development of the concept of “character” in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century