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Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood
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Paul Gilmore
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Edited by:
Donald E. Pease
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
Examines the formation of white middle-class manhood in the U.S.
Author / Editor information
Paul Gilmore is Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University.
Reviews
“A brilliantly conceived, carefully built, nuanced, and important study of the ongoing consolidation of white middle-class manhood in the antebellum United States.”—Dana Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men
“Richly informative and conceptually sophisticated, Paul Gilmore’s book argues that antebellum white male writers appropriated racialized body images from mass culture to market their antimarket manhood. Gilmore shows how unstable images of raced authenticity helped to stabilize literary manhood’s ‘impossible ideal,’ to be in and above market culture.”—David Leverenz, University of Florida
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Prologue: Staging Manhood, Writing Manhood: Cultural Authority and the Indian Body
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1 ‘‘De Genewine Artekil’’: William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and Abolitionism
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2. The Indian in the Museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and Authentic Manhood
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3. A ‘‘Rara Avis in Terris ’’: Poe’s ‘‘Hop-Frog’’ and Race in the Antebellum Freak Show
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4. Inward Criminality and the Shadow of Race: The House of the Seven Gables and Daguerreotypy
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Epilogue: Electric Chains
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
November 28, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780822380313
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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288
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11 illustrations
