TY - BOOK AU - Sorisio,Carolyn TI - Fleshing out America: race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879 PY - 2002///] CY - Athens, Georgia PB - University of Georgia Press KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - United States KW - History KW - American literature KW - Human body in literature KW - Politics and literature KW - Sex role in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal; American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about; 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 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb34641 ER -