Gilmore, Paul, 1970-

The genuine article race, mass culture, and American literary manhood / [electronic resource] : Paul Gilmore. - Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001. - x, 274 p. : ill. - New Americanists . - e-Duke books scholarly collection. New Americanists. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-266) and index.

Introduction -- Prologue: staging manhood, writing manhood: cultural authority and the Indian body -- "De Genewine Artekil": William Wells Brown, Blackface Minstrelsy, and abolitionism -- The Indian in the museum: Henry David Thoreau, Okah Tubbee, and authentic manhood -- A "RaraAvis in Terris": Poe's "Hop-Frog" and race in the antebellum freak show -- Inward criminality and the shadow of race: the house of the seven gables and Daguerreotypy -- Epilogue: electric chains.

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American literature--Male authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Popular culture--History--United States--19th century.
Race awareness--History--United States--19th century.
Masculinity--History--United States--19th century.
Men--History--United States--19th century.
Men--Intellectual life.--United States
Race awareness in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Race in literature.
Men in literature.


Electronic books.

PS153.M3 / G55 2001