{"product_id":"bodies-of-reform-the-rhetoric-of-character-in-gilded-age-america-9780814741313","title":"Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart of the American Literatures Initiative Series \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBodies 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James B. Salazar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.92h x 6.08w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814741313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalazar, James B.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJames B. Salazar\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at Temple University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40265609707635,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_d09c3f76-0b88-462f-b01e-538ce6c29ab7.jpg?v=1657721725","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/bodies-of-reform-the-rhetoric-of-character-in-gilded-age-america-9780814741313","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}