TY  - GEN
AB  - 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 such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body.
AU  - Salazar, James B., 
CN  - PS374.C43
DO  - 10.18574/nyu/9780814741306.001.0001
DO  - doi
ID  - 1480245
JF  - New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Character in literature.
KW  - Character
KW  - Characters and characteristics in literature.
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature.
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Politics and literature
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
KW  - Bodies.
KW  - States.
KW  - United.
KW  - category.
KW  - century.
KW  - character.
KW  - charting.
KW  - concept.
KW  - culture.
KW  - cultures.
KW  - development.
KW  - early-twentieth.
KW  - fictional.
KW  - from.
KW  - genres.
KW  - literature.
KW  - mid-nineteenth.
KW  - movements.
KW  - nineteenth-century.
KW  - pivotal.
KW  - political.
KW  - reconceives.
KW  - reform.
KW  - social.
KW  - this.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814786536
N2  - 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 such as Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman alongside a diverse collection of texts concerned with the mission of building character, including child-rearing guides, muscle-building magazines, libel and naturalization law, Scout handbooks, and success manuals, James B. Salazar uncovers how the cultural practices of representing character operated in tandem with the character-building strategies of social reformers. His innovative reading of this archive offers a radical revision of this defining category in U.S. literature and culture, arguing that character was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining-and contesting-the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body.
SN  - 9780814786536
T1  - Bodies of Reform :The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America /
TI  - Bodies of Reform :The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814786536
VL  - 14
ER  -