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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America (America and the long 19th century) |
Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James B Salazar |
OCLC Number: | 939167767 |
Notes: | Book. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Acknowledgments Introduction: "The Grandest Thing in the World" 1 Philanthropic Taste: Race and Character in Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man 2 Character Is Capital: Manufacturing Habit in Mark Twain's Character Factory 3 Muscle Memory: Building the Body Politic of Character in Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the National Police Gazette 4 "A Story Written on Her Face": Pauline Hopkins's Unmaking of the Inherited Character of Race 5 Character's Conduct: Spaces of Interethnic Emulation in Jane Addams's "Charitable Effort" Notes IndexAbout the Author |
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Salazar's splendid study gives this term a cultural history, and in the process shows how the rhetoric of character has profound effects on what we do from child-rearing, to physical exercise, to racial exclusion, to immigrant inclusion, and the contours of democratic citizenship itself. -- Karen Sanchez-Eppler,Amherst College A comprehensive and original study of the various ways the rhetoric of character appeared in American culture. -- Debra Bernardi * American Literary Realism * Dense and thought-provoking. -- J.J. Benardete * Choice * This detailed and carefully argued book charts the development of character...drawing on a rich archive of primary sources. -- William Gleason * The Journal of American History * James Salazar takes the term & characterpervasive and elusiveand accounts for its centrality by showing how it embodies the contradictions of modern America. In a series of intricate literary readings, he analyzes the ways in which the late-nineteenth-century obsession with building & character vivified social distinctions but also, in its instabilities, became the pivot for critique. -- Samuel Otter,University of California, Berkeley [Salazar] ably integrates an impressive array of materials into his readings. * New England Quarterly * Read more...

