Salazar, James B.

Bodies of Reform The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America / [Recurso electrónico] : James B. Salazar. - New York : New York University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (x, 300 p. :) ill. ; - America and the long 19th century . - America and the long 19th century. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Libro Electrónico

9780814741320 0814741320




Politics and literature--History--United States--19th century.
Political culture--History--United States--19th century.
Rhetoric--Political aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Character--Political aspects--History--United States--19th century.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Character in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--19th century


Electronic books.

PS374.C43 / S36 2010

823/.809353