The Political Lives of Dead Bodies

The Political Lives of Dead Bodies
Author: Katherine Verdery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231112314


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Representative works are interpreted in light of the two great political movements of the nineteenth century: the abolition of slavery and the women's rights movement. By reexamining Emerson, Poe, Melville, Douglass, Walt Whitman, Chopin, and Faulkner and others, Rowe assesses the degree to which major writers' attitudes toward race, class, and gender contribute to specific political reforms in nineteenth and twentieth-century American culture.