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Author Salazar, James B., author.

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

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series America and the long 19th century
America and the long 19th century.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Character in literature.
Character in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Character -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Character.
United States.
History.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Political culture.
Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Politics and literature.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Salazar, James B. Bodies of reform. New York : New York University Press, ©2010 9780814741306 (DLC) 2010019202 (OCoLC)629700364
ISBN 9780814741320 (electronic book)
0814741320 (electronic book)
0814741304 (cl ; alkaline paper)
9780814741306 (cl ; alkaline paper)
0814741312 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780814741313 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780814741306 (cl ; alkaline paper)
9780814741313 (paperback ; alkaline paper)