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Author:

Salazar, James B.

Title:

Bodies of reform : the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America / James B. Salazar.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

x, 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

America and the long 19th century

ISBN:

0814741320 (e-book : alk. paper)
9780814741320 (e-book : alk. paper)
0814741312 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814741313 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814741304 (cl : alk. paper)
9780814741306 (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)629700364

LCCN:

2010019202

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)