Bodies of Reform: The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America

by James Salazar

Book Overview

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series

From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de si cle 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.

Bodies of Reform reconceives this pivotal category of nineteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814741312
• ISBN13: 9780814741313
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"