Sorisio, Carolyn, 1966-

Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879 / Carolyn Sorisio. - Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2002] ©2002 - x, 299 pages ; 24 cm - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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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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--History and criticism.--19th century--History--United States--19th century.

American literature Human body in literature. Politics and literature Sex role in literature. Race in literature.