The Political Lives of Dead Bodies

The Political Lives of Dead Bodies
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Total Pages : 185
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ISBN-10 : 0231112319
ISBN-13 : 9780231112314
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Book Synopsis The Political Lives of Dead Bodies by : Katherine Verdery

Download or read book The Political Lives of Dead Bodies written by Katherine Verdery and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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