Genuine Article

Race, Mass Culture, and American Literary Manhood

Автор: Paul Gilmore

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Издател: Duke University Press

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In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a c...

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Автор

Paul Gilmore

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2001

страници

288

EAN

9780822327547

ISBN

0822327546

Enbook ID

04937470

Издател

Duke University Press

Теглоt

649

Размери

152 x 228 x 27

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In The Genuine Article Paul Gilmore examines the interdependence of literary and mass culture at a crucial moment in United States history. Demonstrating from a new perspective the centrality of race to the construction of white manhood across class lines, Gilmore argues that in the years prior to the Civil War, as literature increasingly became another commodity in the capitalist cultural marketplace, American authors appropriated middle-brow and racially-loaded cultural forms to bolster their masculinity. From characters in Indian melodramas and minstrel shows to exhibits in popular museums and daguerrotype galleries, primitive racialised figures circulated as "the genuine article" of manliness in the antebellum United States. Gilmore argues that these figures were manipulated, translated, and adopted not only by authors such as Hawthorne, Thoreau, Cooper, and Melville but also by African American and Native American writers like William Wells Brown and Okah Tubbee. By examining how these cultural notions of race played out in literary texts and helped to construct authorship as a masculine profession, Gilmore makes a unique contribution to theories of class formation in nineteenth-century America. The Genuine Article will enrich students and scholars of American studies, gender studies, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, popular culture, and race.

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