Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879 / Carolyn Sorisio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sorisio, Carolyn, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Human body in literature.

Politics and literature--United States--History--19th century.

Politics and literature.

Race in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on Euro- and African American authors of both genders who are notable for their aesthetic and political differences, Fleshing Out America demonstrates the surprisingly diverse literary conversation taking place as American authors attempted to reshape the politics of the body, which shaped the politics of the time.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612725937

9781282725935

1282725939

9780820326375

0820326372

OCLC:

53979189

Publisher Number:

2027/heb34641 hdl