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9%OFFJames B. Salazar - Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America - 9780814741313 - V9780814741313
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Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America

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Description for Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America Paperback. Charts 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 Series: America and the Long 19th Century. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
America and the Long 19th Century
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814741313
SKU
V9780814741313
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About James B. Salazar
James B. Salazar is Assistant Professor of English at Temple University.

Reviews for Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
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 Sánchez-Eppler,Amherst College A comprehensive and original study of the various ways the rhetoric of ... Read more

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