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Bodies of reform : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America / James B. Salazar.
LIBRA PS374.C43 S36 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salazar, James B.
- Series:
- America and the long 19th century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Character in literature.
- Characters and characteristics in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Character--Political aspects--United States--History--19h century.
- Character.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Rhetoric.
- Political culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Political culture.
- Rhetoric--Political aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814741306
- 0814741304
- 9780814741313
- 0814741312
- 9780814741320
- 0814741320
- OCLC:
- 629700364
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