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

Von: Sorisio, Carolyn, 1966- [author.]Materialtyp: TextTextSprache: Englisch Reihen: ACLS Humanities E-BookVerlag: Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2002]Copyright-Datum: ©2002Beschreibung: x, 299 pages ; 24 cmInhaltstyp: Text Medientyp: Computermedien Datenträgertyp: Online RessourceISBN: 9780820326375Schlagwörter: -- 19th century -- History and criticism | -- United States -- History -- 19th century | American literature | Human body in literature | Politics and literature | Sex role in literature | Race in literatureGenre/Form: Online-Ressourcen: Volltext
Inhalte:
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and index.

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.

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