Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Literary Criticism - U.S. Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous, 19th Century American History - Social Aspects, Race Awareness, Popular Culture - United States, Masculinity, 19th Century Americ
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From the Publisher
“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
Book Details
Published
March 1, 2002
Publisher
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780822327646