Identifying marks :: race, gender, and the marked body in nineteenth-century America /

"What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dick's Queequeg. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more challenging array of canonical and lesser-...

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1. Verfasser: Putzi, Jennifer
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2006.
Schriftenreihe:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Zusammenfassung:"What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Dick's Queequeg. This study looks at the presence of marked men and women in a more challenging array of canonical and lesser-known works, including exploration narratives, romances, and frontier novels. Jennifer Putzi shows how tattoos, scars, and brands can function both as stigma and as emblem of healing and survival, thus blurring the borderline between the biological and social, the corporeal and spiritual."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-190) and index.
ISBN:9780820343952
0820343951
1280596023
9781280596025
9786613625854
661362585X

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