Bodies of reform
Subtitle: the rhetoric of character in Gilded Age America
By: James B. Salazar
Series: America and the long 19th century; America and the long 19th century
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780814741306; 9780814741313; 9780814741320
Subjects: Character in literature; Rhetoric; Politics and literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; History and criticism; Character; Political culture; American fiction; Characters and characteristics in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the grandest thing in the world; title: Philanthropic taste: race and character in Herman Melville's The confidence-man; title: Character is capital: manufacturing habit in Mark Twain's character-factory; title: Muscle memory: building the body politic of character in Charlotte Perkins Gilman and The National Police Gazette; title: A story written on her face: Pauline Hopkins's unmaking of the inherited character of race; title: Character's conduct: spaces of interethnic emulation in Jane Addams's charitable effort.