Nineteenth-century American Literature often features bodies that seem to have minds of their own. This book recovers these bodies to tell a new story of American Literature, reimagining what it meant to be human for women, working-class, and Black subjects who were dehumanized precisely because of their bodies.
Nineteenth-century American Literature often features bodies that seem to have minds of their own. This book recovers these bodies to tell a new story of American Literature, reimagining what it meant to be human for women, working-class, and Black subjects who were dehumanized precisely because of their bodies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Matthew Rebhorn is Professor of English and Theater at James Madison University. He is the Author of Pioneer Performances: Staging the Frontier (2010). His work has been supported by the Library Company of Philadelphia, Harvard University, the American Antiquarian Society, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: minding the bodies of nineteenth-century American literature; 1. Drift: medical discourse, racial embodiment, and Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee; 2. Betweenness: medical discourse, racial performance, and the living labor of Edwin Forrest's body; 3. Doubleness: the four acts of Henry Box Brown's black embodiment; 4. Beyond: spiritual materialism, sentimentalism, and the afterlives of embodiment; Conclusion: reading for the lived experience of embodiment in nineteenth-century American literature; Bibliography.
Introduction: minding the bodies of nineteenth-century American literature; 1. Drift: medical discourse, racial embodiment, and Robert Montgomery Bird's Sheppard Lee; 2. Betweenness: medical discourse, racial performance, and the living labor of Edwin Forrest's body; 3. Doubleness: the four acts of Henry Box Brown's black embodiment; 4. Beyond: spiritual materialism, sentimentalism, and the afterlives of embodiment; Conclusion: reading for the lived experience of embodiment in nineteenth-century American literature; Bibliography.
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