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The Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood (New Amer
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- Publication Name
- The Genuine Article: Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Ma
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- ISBN
- 9780822327646
- Book Title
- Genuine Article : Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood
- Item Length
- 0.4in
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Topic
- American / General
- Item Width
- 0.2in
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in U. S. history. Demonstrating from a new perspective the centrality of race to the construction of white manhood across class lines, Gilmore argues that in the years before the Civil War, as literature increasingly became another commodity in the capitalist cultural marketplace, American authors appropriated middle-brow and racially loaded cultural forms to bolster their masculinity. From characters in Indian melodramas and minstrel shows to exhibits in popular museums and daguerrotype galleries, primitive racialized figures circulated as "the genuine article" of manliness in the antebellum United States. Gilmore argues that these figures were manipulated, translated, and adopted not only by canonical authors such as Hawthorne, Thoreau, Cooper, and Melville but also by African American and Native American writers like William Wells Brown and Okah Tubbee. By examining how these cultural notions of race played out in literary texts and helped to construct authorship as a masculine profession, Gilmore makes a unique contribution to theories of class formation in nineteenth-century America. The Genuine Article will enrich students and scholars of American studies, gender studies, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, popular culture, and race.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822327643
ISBN-13
9780822327646
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2215610
Product Key Features
Book Title
Genuine Article : Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.4in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
0.2in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
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Ps153
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“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, "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, "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, "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
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2002
Dewey Decimal
810.9/9286/09034
Series
New Americanists Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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