Paul Gilmore

The Genuine Article

Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood

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Produktbeschreibung

"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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 158mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780822327547
• ISBN-10: 0822327546
• Artikelnr.: 21398517

Autorenporträt

Paul Gilmore

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
> Acknowledgments
> Introduction
Prologue: Staging Manhood, Writing Manhood: Cultural Authority and the
Indian Body
2. The Indian in the Museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and
Authentic Manhood
3. A “Rara Avis in Terris”: Poe’s “Hop-Frog” and Race in the Antebellum
Freak Show
4. Inward Criminality and the Shadow of Race: The House of the Seven Gables
and Daguerreotypy
Daguerreotypy
Epilogue: Electric Chains
Notes
> Bibliography
> Index