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