Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
James B. Salazar
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series
From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American national identity.
Bodies of Reform reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century literature and culture by charting the development of the concept of “character” in the fictional genres, social reform movements, and political cultures of the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. By reading novelists ... Read more
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Karen Sánchez-Eppler,Amherst College A comprehensive and original study of the various ways the rhetoric of ... Read more