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.