Fleshing out America : race, gender, and the politics of the body in American literature, 1833-1879
By: Carolyn Sorisio.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Body, Human, in literature; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Sex role in literature; Race in literature
Description: "Drawing on Euro- and African American authors of both genders who are notable for their aesthetic and political differences, Fleshing Out America demonstrates the surprisingly diverse literary conversation taking place as American authors attempted to reshape the politics of the body, which shaped the politics of the time."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: remapping the nineteenth-century literary landscape; title: The body in the body politic: race, gender, and sexuality in nineteenth-century America; title: The spectacle of the body: corporeality in Lydia Maria Child's antislavery writing; title: Deflecting the public's gaze and disciplining desire: Harper's antebellum poetry and Reconstruction fiction; title: Saxons and slavery: corporeal challenges to Ralph Waldo Emerson's Republic of the spirit; title: The new face of empire: the price of Margaret Fuller's progressive feminist project; title: "Who need be afraid of the merge?": Whitman's radical promise and the perils of seduction; title: "Never before had my puny arm felt half so strong": corporeality and transcendence in Jacobs's incidents; title: Epilogue: Martin R. Delany and the politics of ethnology.