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- catalog abstract ""Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination explores how material goods shaped antebellum notions of race, class, gender, and purity." "Along with analyzing physical materials, Heneghan examines the nineteenth-century citizens' increasing concerns with cleanliness, dental care, and complexion. These hygienic concepts, Heneghan argues, became the means by which whiteness was codified as morally superior." "Early nineteenth-century authors participated in this material economy as well, building their literary landscapes in the same way their readers furnished their households and manipulating the understood meanings of things into political statements." "Such writers as James Fenimore Cooper and John Pendleton Kennedy use setting descriptions to insist on segregation and hierarchy. Such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville struggled to negotiate messages of domesticity, body politics, and privilege according to complex agendas of their own. Challenging the popular notions, such slave narrators as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs wielded white objects to reverse the perspective of their white readers and, at times, to mock their white middle-class pretensions."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13033552.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Bridging literary scholarship, archaeology, history, and art history, Whitewashing America: Material Culture and Race in the Antebellum Imagination explores how material goods shaped antebellum notions of race, class, gender, and purity." "Along with analyzing physical materials, Heneghan examines the nineteenth-century citizens' increasing concerns with cleanliness, dental care, and complexion. These hygienic concepts, Heneghan argues, became the means by which whiteness was codified as morally superior." "Early nineteenth-century authors participated in this material economy as well, building their literary landscapes in the same way their readers furnished their households and manipulating the understood meanings of things into political statements."".
- catalog description ""Such writers as James Fenimore Cooper and John Pendleton Kennedy use setting descriptions to insist on segregation and hierarchy. Such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville struggled to negotiate messages of domesticity, body politics, and privilege according to complex agendas of their own. Challenging the popular notions, such slave narrators as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs wielded white objects to reverse the perspective of their white readers and, at times, to mock their white middle-class pretensions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-198) and index.".
- catalog description "The pot calling the kettle : white goods and the construction of race in antebellum America -- Living on white bread : class considerations and the refinement of whiteness -- Unmentionable things unmentioned : constructing femininity with white things -- See Spot run : white things in the rhetoric of racial, moral, and hygienic purity.".
- catalog extent "xxvii, 204 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1578065852 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813.009/355 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature White authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Human skin color in literature.".
- catalog subject "Material culture United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Material culture in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.R32 H465 2003".
- catalog subject "Race in literature.".
- catalog subject "Racism in literature.".
- catalog subject "Segregation in literature.".
- catalog subject "Slavery in literature.".
- catalog subject "White in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The pot calling the kettle : white goods and the construction of race in antebellum America -- Living on white bread : class considerations and the refinement of whiteness -- Unmentionable things unmentioned : constructing femininity with white things -- See Spot run : white things in the rhetoric of racial, moral, and hygienic purity.".
- catalog title "Whitewashing America : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / Bridget T. Heneghan.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".