The genuine article [electronic resource] : race, mass culture, and American literary manhood / Paul Gilmore.
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TextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | New AmericanistsPublication details: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2001.Description: x, 274 p. : illISBN: - 9780822380313
- American literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Race awareness -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Men -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Men -- United States -- Intellectual life
- Race awareness in literature
- Masculinity in literature
- Race in literature
- Men in literature
- PS153.M3 G55 2001
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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